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'He would be humbled': Larry Doby's son accepts posthumous Congressional Gold Medal
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Major League Baseball player, civil rights activist, and World War II veteran Lawrence Eugene “Larry” Doby was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday, 13 December. Doby was the first Black player to play in the American League in 1947, and the second Black baseball player to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era after Jackie Robinson. “This means the world to my family...
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