Baseball Needs to Retire Doby's 14 ; 60 Years Ago, Paterson Native Rose Above Hate
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › July 06, 2007
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Picture a man, a black man from Paterson, walking down a Texas street in his full Cleveland Indians gear because he could not dress in a white clubhouse, or stay in a white hotel, or ride in a white cab. Picture Larry Doby, loneliest man on the face of the earth, stopped at the gate of a Texarkana field because a progressive- minded security guard needed to protect the sanctity of a big league exhibition game.
Picture Lou Boudreau, the Cleveland player/manager, rushing to the gate to vouch for Doby, who ultimately would leave the field because the church-going customers in the stands welcomed him with a biblical rain of bottles and rocks.See the full content of this document
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Baseball Needs to Retire Doby's 14 ; 60 Years Ago, Paterson Native Rose Above Hate
These are the images framing a pioneer's life, the scenes illustrating why the second black man to play in the majors carved out a legacy that was second to none.
Sixty years ago Thursday, Doby started rising above the hate. He pinch-hit against the White Sox in Comiskey Park...See the full content of this document
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