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 #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.

Marty Bass is at the Hubert Simmons Museum of Negro League Baseball to learn about the history of Larry Doby.

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. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr ...

Seventy-five years ago, on a cloudy day in Comiskey Park, Larry Doby stepped out of the shadows into an exclusionary world. On that day — July 5, 1947 — the unassuming 22-year-old Paterson ...

Rojas did play in the first-ever Larry Doby Field contest in 2002. As a sophomore desingated hitter, he was one of five Eastside players to drive in a run during a five-inning, 13-3 win over ...

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.

Nobody on either side has all the answers. You’ve got to listen to each other.” — Larry Doby Jr. politely chastising members of Congress while accepting the Congressional Gold Medal on ...

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 ...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - 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 ...