Larry Doby
Debut: July 5, 1947 (Age 23 years, 204 days) with Cleveland
Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 1998. (Voted by Veteran's Committee)
Why don't American League teams honor Doby, who mostly wore 14 for Cleveland? It could serve as a simple history lesson for some MLB players who still simplistically say that if it were not for Jackie Robinson, who debuted April 15, 1947, they would not be in MLB. If Robinson had not existed, Doby would have been the first black player in modern MLB. In other words, it would have been somebody. Don Newcombe was Robinson's teammate on the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Don Newcombe on Jackie Robinson: "He thinks we owe him something 'cause he was first. We owe him nothing. If he hadn't been first, some other guy would have been." Thursday, June 5, 2014
Contrary to what too many Bud Selig inspired people may think, baseball would not have remained segregated if Jackie Robinson had never existed.
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