found: African American National Biography, accessed January 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Doby, Larry; Lawrence Eugene Doby; Bubba Brooks; baseball player, athletic coach / manager, Hall of Fame athlete; born 1923 in Camden, South Carolina, United States; admitted to Long Island University on a basketball scholarship, transferred to Virginia Union; joined the U.S. Navy (1943); played baseball for the Newark Eagles; the first African American in the American League; had a distinguished thirteen-year career with the Indians and, briefly, the White Sox and Tigers; appointed as manager of the Chicago White Sox (1978); left baseball in 1979; moved into pro basketball, serving as director of community relations for the New Jersey Nets; honored at long last by the Baseball Hall of Fame (1998); died 2003 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States)
