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 ...

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

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

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 ...

"Doby suffered the same indignities as Jackie Robinson, but his struggles did not get the media attention Robinson's received ...

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, a pioneering force for Black baseball players, was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in a Wednesday ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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 ...