» July 5, 1947: Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first black to play in the AL. He strikes out as a pinch hitter, as the Chicago White Sox edge the Indians 6-5. Tomorrow he will go 1-for-5 in his first full game at 1B.

» May 8, 1948: At Griffith Stadium, Larry Doby pounds a 408-foot homer to CF, which hits the loudspeakers 35 high, to help the Indians top the Senators, 6–1. Larry's ball bounces back onto the field and was initially declared in play. The 8th-inning three-run homer is the longest home run in the Stadium since Babe Ruth's shot in 1922, and is the first of Doby's four career inside-the-park homers. World War two veteran Gene Bearden makes his first start, allowing just three Nat hits. He walks four in the 9th inning to allow the lone run, as Washington finally scores after three straight shutouts.

» July 13, 1948: Before 51,013 at Comiskey, Satchel Paige makes his 3rd appearance and 1st start and allows five hits in nine innings to beat the Sox, 5–0. Teammate Larry Doby has two hits and two stolen bases.

» August 1, 1948: At Cleveland, the Tribe sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 12–2 and 6–1, to move into 2nd place in the American League. Bob Lemon coasts to his 14th win in the opener, beating Ellis Kinder. Larry Doby drives in four runs. Cleveland RF Edwards dislocates his shoulder crashing into the fence making a spectacular catch of Spence's home run bid. Sam Zoldak wins the nitecap. The Sox drop from 1st to 4th place with the double loss: Cleveland, New York and Boston are each a game back of the A's.

» October 7, 1948: Cleveland ties the Series on Bob Lemon's 4-1 win. Two runs score in the 4th on hits by Lou Boudreau, Joe Gordon, and Larry Doby.

» October 9, 1948: Before a record WS 81,897, the Indians take a 3-1 Series lead, as Steve Gromek outpitches Johnny Sain. The first HR of the Series, by Larry Doby, is decisive.

» July 12, 1949: The NL commits five errors, allowing the AL to record an 11-7 triumph in the All-Star Game at Ebbets Field. The contest marks the first appearance of black players--Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe in the NL lineup and Larry Doby among the AL stars.

» July 28, 1950: The Indians' Larry Doby, Al Rosen, and Luke Easter connect for consecutive home runs in the 3rd in a 13–1 whipping of the Red Sox.

» August 2, 1950: Larry Doby hits three HRs in a game as Cleveland beats Washington 11–0. Besides tossing the shutout, Indians hurler Bob Lemon hits a HR. Lemon has now won nine in a row.

» May 24, 1951: Cleveland whips the Senators 16–0, with Bob Feller pitching a 2-hitter. Larry Doby has a homer and four RBIs to lead the Tribe.

» September 19, 1951: Larry Doby of the Indians walks five times in a 15-2 cakewalk over the Red Sox in Boston. Early Wynn picks up his 20th win. Cleveland now returns home for with five of six games against Detroit; their record is 16–1 against the Tigers.

» June 4, 1952: Billy Goodman of the Red Sox goes 5-for-5 in a 13-11 slugfest with Cleveland. The Indians Larry Doby hits for the cycle.

» July 1, 1952: The Indians Larry Doby walks five times in a 19- inning game.

» July 15, 1952: The Indian power hitters dazzle the Yankees with a triple steal in the first inning as Al Rosen scores, Larry Doby goes to third, and Luke Easter, in his only major-league theft, goes to second.

» April 21, 1954: In the first night game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, Bob Turley has a no-hitter against Cleveland when, with one out in the 9th, Al Rosen singles and Larry Doby homers. Turley strikes out 14, but loses, 2–1.

» July 13, 1954: In the All-Star Game, the AL breaks the NL's 4-game winning streak with an 11-9 win. Larry Doby's pinch HR in the eighth, followed by Nellie Fox's 2-run single, ends the highest scoring All-Star Game in history. The two teams combine for 31 hits, with the AL amassing 17. The Indians Al Rosen has two HRs and 5 RBIs.

» May 29, 1955: Larry Doby of the Indians hits the first ML home run over the outer wall in Kansas City, an estimated 500-foot clout in the 6th. The Indians win 4–2 behind Herb Score, who is replaced in the 9th after singles by C Wilmer Shantz and pinch-hitter Enos Slaughter. Wilmer's brother Bobby Shantz is the loser.

» August 13, 1955: Larry Doby makes his first error in the OF in 167 games, a new AL record.

» October 25, 1955: The White Sox trade Chico Carrasquel and Jim Busby to the Indians for Larry Doby.

» May 21, 1956: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle clouts a drive over the 2nd and more distance fence in RF to help the Yankees win, 8–5. The drive, off Moe Burtschy, matches homers to that spot by Larry Doby and Suitcase Simpson.

» September 26, 1956: Jim Lemon of the Senators sets a ML record for strikeouts by a batter in one season with 138. This surpasses Larry Doby's mark of 121, set in 1953. The Senators lose to the Red Sox 8-4.

» December 3, 1957: Al Lopez, who traded Larry Doby when he was managing, Cleveland, does it again in Chicago. The Orioles swap P Ray Moore, Billy Goodman, and OF Tito Francona to the White Sox for Doby, pitchers Jack Harshman and Russ Heman, and infielder Jim Marshall.

» March 31, 1958: The Indians trade OF Gene Woodling, the versatile Dick Williams, and P Bud Daley to the Orioles for OF Larry Doby and LHP Don Ferrarese.

» March 3, 1959: The Indians send Larry Doby to Detroit for OF Tito Francona. Francona will hit .363 for the Tribe, while Doby will be released after playing just 16 games for Detroit.

» June 23, 1962: Larry Doby, retired from the Cleveland Indians, signs on with the Chunichi Dragons to become, with Don Newcombe, the first former ML players to play for a Japanese team. His season BA will be a mediocre .225.

» June 30, 1978: Larry Doby becomes the 2nd black ML manager, replacing Bob Lemon as skipper of the White Sox. Chicago has a 34-40 record at the time, and would go 37-50 the rest of the way.

» October 19, 1978: The White Sox fire Larry Doby, naming Don Kessinger as player-manager for the 1979 season.

» July 3, 1994: The Indians retire Larry Doby's uniform number 47 years after he broke the American League color line.

» March 3, 1998: Larry Doby, Lee MacPhail, George Davis, and "Bullet" Joe Rogan are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.