Larry Doby, the second black player in modern Major League Baseball, died Wednesday. He was 79. Jackie Robinson crossed the color barrier in 1947 with the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers. Eleven weeks later, Doby became the first black player in the American League when he joined the Cleveland Indians. But in many ways, Doby had a tougher, lonelier fight than Robinson.
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