The subject of Larry Doby came up. Doby was the first Black player in the American League. Veeck signed Doby in the middle of ...

In 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League, joining the Cleveland Indians ...

On July 5, 1947, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, two-time Negro League All-Star Larry ...

Larry Doby broke the color barrier in the American League. But as Terry Pluto explains, his rushed debut with the Cleveland ...

Larry Doby broke the American League's color barrier 78 years ago today, on July 5, 1947. It was just a few months after ...

Bill Sizemore might be 91 years old, but there's a day, 75 years ago, that he remembers as if it were just yesterday. It was ...

View full size Plain Dealer Historical Collection Larry Doby (greeted at third base by coach Tony Cuccinello in 1955) hit 215 of his 253 big-league home runs for the Indians -- most between 1947 ...

Larry Doby #14 of the Chicago White Sox swings at the pitch during an MLB Spring Training game against the New York Yankees on March 12, 1956 in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Larry Doby died in 2003 after a long battle with cancer, almost two years to the day he lost his wife of 55 years, Helyn, to the same disease. 6.

Larry Doby, who debuted as the first Black player in American League history 75 years ago Tuesday, could have wound up in D.C. if Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith hadn’t whiffed on an ...

Larry Doby never reacted or swore. Me, I would lose my cool, get angry, curse. If somebody hit me like they shouldn’t have, I’d jump up ready to kill the guy. ...