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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 ...

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 ...

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UPI Almanac for Saturday, July 5, 2025 On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League.

Larry Doby broke the American League's color barrier 78 years ago today, on July 5, 1947. It was just a few months after Jackie Robinson first took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the ...