Larry Doby

Jackie Robinson can't sub for Barry Bonds

2007-04-14 00:00:00

April 15, by decree of Major League Baseball, will be Jackie Robinson Day. On Sunday, a player on each big league team will be designated to wear Robinson's uniform number, 42. The Dodgers, Robinson's club in its Brooklyn incarnation, intend to go one...

Busway Needs A Salesman Like Bill Veeck

2012-08-02 13:11:54

The deal is done, most of the contracts are let, the construction is under way — and some politicians are still bashing the New Britain-to- Hartford busway. This potentially transformative project has become a punching bag for some of the candidates...

Former McCarthy star Nick Castellanos shines in Futures Game

2012-07-09 14:13:00

Two summers ago, Nick Castellanos made the life-changing decision to bypass a college career at Miami and begin playing professional baseball. Today, the former Archbishop McCarthy standout is in Kansas City, basking in the limelight after an...

Big leaguers honor baseball pioneer

2012-04-16 01:05:16

NEW YORK - LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball. And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson...

Stamp honors San Diego baseball great

2011-09-02 15:24:00

SAN DIEGO -- A stamp honoring San Diego native Ted Williams will be issued in 2012 as part of a set of four stamps depicting members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, the U.S. Postal Service announced Friday. Williams, a graduate of Hoover High School who...

Taken For Granted: Remembering a ballgame renegade

2011-03-04 17:49:00

A World Series championship banner will fly above Dodger Stadium on March 31. No, I’m not delusional; I sadly recall the Dodgers’ miserable finish last season. The banner proclaiming the Giants World Series victory will be streamed...

Scoreboard

2011-01-06 01:30:42

TV SPORTS Women's College Basketball-Michigan at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Penn State at Northwestern, 7:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Idaho at Nevada, 10 p.m. (ESPNU) Men's College Basketball-Xavier at Cincinnati, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Villanova at...

This date in Chicago White Sox history

2008-07-29 06:57:00

July 20 1973 -- Wilbur Wood of the White Sox lost both ends of a doubleheader to the New York Yankees, 12-2 and 7-0. July 22 1962 -- Floyd Robinson of the White Sox had six singles in six at-bats in a 7-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox. July 24...

The opening Opening Day

2004-04-15 00:00:00

The day the Orioles arrived in Baltimore, trolleys clanged down cobbled streets. Kids rushed to see Pinocchio at the Hippodrome. Banana boats dumped their bushels onto weathered wharves where the Inner Harbor now stands. On April 15, 1954, Baltimore...

Year-by-year inductees

2005-01-04 11:27:19

(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...

Opening act

2004-04-15 00:00:00

The quiet pioneer

2004-04-23 00:00:00

He was a tiny left-handed pitcher whose major league career was composed of two appearances, one in Chicago and the other in Baltimore. Most of his baseball life unfolded in the game's fringes, on minor league diamonds from Canada to Cuba. Yet Jehosie...

Left to right: Larry Doby, Matty Brescia and Jackie Robinson in 1953, a Withers photo from the book "Negro League Baseball."

2013-01-31 00:00:00

From left, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson , the Cleveland Indians' Larry Doby , the Dodgers' Don Newcombe , the Indians' Luke Easter and Dodger Roy Campanella at Ebbets Field on July 24, 1950.

2009-04-28 22:41:35

Number: 14 Player: Paul Konerko , 1B, 1999 Comment: Much support for Bill Melton and some for Larry Doby , too. (Sorry, none for Russ Morman.) But Paulie's an 11-year White Sox , a World Series hero, an ALCS MVP and a three-time All-Star (with an .800 batting average in All-Star competition). Case

2005-10-16 00:00:00