The event has seen many of today’s stars participate. Former Detroit Tiger and current Philadelphia Phillie Nick Castellanos ...

1901 Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A's. 1945 Tommy Holmes of the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Bill Sizemore might be 91 years old, but there's a day, 75 years ago, that he remembers as if it were just yesterday—his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Larry Doby Field underwent renovation earlier this year, with the playing surface changing from grass to FieldTurf.

Hall of Fame sports writer and Henderson resident Jerry Izenberg has authored his 15th book at age 93: “Larry Doby in Black and White: The Story of a Baseball Pioneer.” ...