Baseball's legendary pitcher, the first player from the Negro Leagues to enter the Hall of Fame, pitched in Milwaukee from ...

2014 — Novak Djokovic wins his second Wimbledon title and denies Roger Federer his record eighth by holding off the Swiss star in five sets. Djokovic wastes a 5-2 lead in the fourth set but holds on ...

1994 — Leroy Burrell breaks the world record in the 100 meters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Burrell’s time of 9.85 seconds betters Carl Lewis’ 9.86 clocking set in the 1991 World Championships.

1994 — Leroy Burrell breaks the world record in the 100 meters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Burrell’s time of 9.85 seconds betters Carl Lewis’ 9.86 clocking set in the 1991 World Championships.

July 5 1919 — Suzanne Lenglen beats reigning champion Dorothea Lambert Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7, in the challenge round to win her first women’s singles title at Wimbledon. 1930 — Bill Tilden beats ...

"Doby suffered the same indignities as Jackie Robinson, but his struggles did not get the media attention Robinson's received." ...

In some ways, Larry Doby faced more obstacles than Jackie Robinson as he came to the Majors in 1947.

Where drop-dead gorgeous is concerned, it's hard to top the work of Dick Perez. Reaching out to noted Larry Doby collector and expert Donna Muscarella of the Society for American Baseball Research ...

Larry Doby broke the American League's color barrier 78 years ago today, on July 5, 1947. It was just a few months after Jackie Robinson first took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the ...

78 years ago this month, Larry Doby broke the color barrier in the American League. But as Terry Pluto explains, his rushed debut with the Cleveland Indians made for a much rougher path than ...