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| 10th August, 2007 - 9:27 pm | AP - Larry Doby waited years before he told his son certain baseball stories, the ones of hatred and horror, the ones he faced as the first black to play in the American League.
Doby was surrounded by prejudice everywhere: on the street, in the clubhouse, and especially on the field.
"He got taunted, and there were bench jockeys who would ride him," Larry Doby Jr. said while standing next to Cleveland's dugout at Jacobs Field. "But he never held any grudges. He forgave. He didn't forget."
The Indians honored Doby on Friday night as each member of Cleveland's team wore the Hall of Famer's No. 14 to honor the 60th anniversary of him following Jackie Robinson over baseball's color barrier. [READ] |
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