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1901 — Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A’s. 1921 — Babe Ruth sets a record of 137 career home runs.
Larry Doby broke the color barrier in the American League. But as Terry Pluto explains, his rushed debut with the Cleveland ...
Major League Baseball's next generation of stars has Georgia on its mind. The 2025 All-Star Futures Game rosters for the ...
"Doby suffered the same indignities as Jackie Robinson, but his struggles did not get the media attention Robinson's received ...
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 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 National ...
On July 5, 1947, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, two-time Negro League All-Star Larry ...
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 ...
In 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League, joining the Cleveland Indians 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the sport's color barrier with the ...
ALSO SEE Morgan: Remembering Larry Doby Baseball pioneer Larry Doby dies at 79 Monday, June 23 Updated: June 26, 7:46 PM ET More than 300 mourners attend memorial Associated Press MONTCLAIR, N.J ...
NBA great Larry Bird once hesitated to spending $60,000 on a Mercedes even after earning roughly $20 million during his Boston Celtics days. The frugal stance—quietly delivered four decades ago ...
With Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone retiring next month, a special election will cost at least $13.1 million, potentially reaching twice as much as that figure.