1949, Larry Doby (AL) and Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe (NL) became the first Black All-Stars.
Larry Doby integrated the AL just 11 weeks after Robinson joined the NL.
Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
goes to:
the Big Black Guy, 6-1, 180, who was a
standout four-sport high school athlete,
and he fought in WWII, and was the first
Black Man to play in the American
Basketball League, and the first Black Man
to play in the American Baseball League
with the Cleveland Indians after the racist
segregation era, signing on July 3, 1947
and debuting on July 5th, without first
playing in the minor leagues, and was
the first Black Man to Homer in a World
Series, a 425 footer solo shot, and along
with pitcher Satchel Paige, they were the
first two Black Men to win a World Series,
plus, he also was an All-Star seven years
in a row, 1949-1955, and was the first
Big Black Man to lead the Majors in homers
with 32 'big ones' in '52 and '54, but he
had to wait almost 40 years to get into the
MLB Hall of Fame in 1998, although
he still has statues in multiple cities,
oh, and he was the second Black Man to
manage a MLB team,
and so much more...
HOF 1998
Larry Doby had mid-upper-lip
Winge's Peak (elatus labialis wingeulus).
Black Baseball History Month was
founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.
in 2025 to commemorate, place value,
and get to know, our Heroes, while
standing and cheering for, the many
International Black Men who 'Shocked
and Awed' us with too many to count,
fantastic and unexpected physical
heroics at the Ballpark, in exciting
efforts for their teams to cross home
plate more than their opponents to win.
The Founder of Black Baseball History Month,
Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,
and elucidator of elatus labialis wingeulus.
If you know a Baseballer who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
