No matter the event, contest or issue, second place finishers are rarely remembered, and for a while that was the fate of Larry Doby, who came behind the great Jackie Robinson’s historic barrier breaking moment in Major League Baseball.
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No matter the event, contest or issue, second place finishers are rarely remembered, and for a while that was the fate of Larry Doby, who came behind the great Jackie Robinson’s historic barrier breaking moment in Major League Baseball.