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The renowned sports caster shares that he "couldn't in good conscience" read MLB Network betting promotions on air.
A former federal prosecutor from Pittsfield who helped convict Jan. 6 rioters and was later fired by the attorney general ...
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 ...
The sport of baseball changed dramatically 95 years ago, thanks to the innovative genius of a young engineer and the business ...
On July 5, 1947, eleven weeks after Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball, two-time Negro League All-Star Larry ...
The subject of Larry Doby came up. Doby was the first Black player in the American League. Veeck signed Doby in the middle of ...
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 ...
The next film in the New Ulm Film Society’s lineup of baseball movies is “42,” a true story about one the most important chapters in sports history. The screening begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, ...
1970 — Jim Ray Hart of San Francisco hit for the cycle and became the first NL player in 59 years to drive in six runs in one inning as the Giants beat Atlanta, 13-0. 1974 — New York shortstop Jim ...
Dave Parker embodied the Negro Leagues. His swag, flair and ebullient demeanor on the baseball diamond conjured images of the showman.
1922—Samuel L. Gravely is born. Gravely became the first African Amer­ican admiral in the United States Navy and the first ...