News
I first met Bill Veeck early in the 1979 baseball season. He was the owner of the Chicago White Sox. I was in Chicago’s old ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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. ...
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 Jr. waited five years for the production of the Congressional Gold Medal that he specifically wanted. No — scratch that — the medal that he knows his father would've wanted.
Larry Doby, who in 1947 became the second Black player to break baseball's color barrier, leading the Cleveland Indians to a World Series championship the following year, was honored on Wednesday ...
Larry Doby, a pioneering force for Black baseball players, was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal during ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results