Wednesday, April 20, 2016
LARRY DOBY
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby
"Larry Doby" was the sobriquet assigned to me by my mother, in my infancy, honoring the first black baseball player in the American Leagues--the Cleveland Indians--who was signed in 1947, the same year as the more famous Jackie Robinson with Brooklyn 's Dodgers.