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On Dec. 16, 2023, three days after what would have been Larry Doby’s 100th birthday, some family members, friends, fans and others interested in history gathered at two places in
2:00 AM UTC Anthony Castrovince WASHINGTON On what would have been his 100th birthday, Larry Doby finally got his due. Doby, the oft-overlooked baseball pioneer who integrated the American League with the 1947 Cleveland Indians and served his country during World War II, was posthumously honored with the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony
This week in 1963, Sandy Koufax won his 20th game for the first time in his career, the first Dodgers left-handed pitcher to win 20 games since Preacher Roe for Brooklyn a dozen years earlier.