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In the ninth inning at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Dodgers, 2-to-0. The Cards' Ron Northey smacked a long drive to center field. As Northey sprinted for third base, Field Umpire John Edward ("Beans") Reardon waved his arm in a...
Three weeks ago, there was only one Negro in the big leagues. Jackie Robinson did well, and soon there were two. Jackie led the league in stolen bases, helped Brooklyn's Dodgers into first place by batting .312. No. 2, the Cleveland Indians' Larry Doby, had not looked...
Yes, I'm speaking of the same Mr. Robinson who is now with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ... At U.C.L.A., in 1939 and 1940, the swift Mr. R. did the following, which I sincerely doubt has ever been equaled in college ranks, even by Mr. Outside:
There was no such standout team in the National League, where three fence-busting clubs-the Braves, Dodgers and Giants-were bunched on top. The league lead had changed hands between them eight times in the past month. Some experts thought that the defending St. Louis Cardinals, now that Stan...
Now that Brooklyn's Dodgers had broken through baseball's racial barrier, at least half a dozen other big-league clubs were scouting Negro talent. Last week the Cleveland Indians signed up powerful, 22-year-old Larry Doby, an infielder who has been batting .458 with the Newark...