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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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, 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.

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 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.

Seventy-five years ago, a black-and-white photo of Cleveland teammates Larry Doby and Steve Gromek delivered a message of tolerance to baseball fans.