# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-doby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:38:01.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-doby"
name: "Larry Doby"
slug: "larry-doby"
description: "Lawrence Eugene Doby was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League. A native of Camden, South Carolina, and three-sport all-state athlete while in high school in Paterson, New Jersey, Doby accepted a basketball scholarship from Long Island University. At 17 years of age, he began his professional baseball career with the Newark Eagles as the team's second baseman. Doby joined the United States Navy during World War II. His military service complete, Doby returned to baseball in 1946, and along with teammate Monte Irvin, helped the Eagles win the Negro League World Series."
tagline: "American baseball player (1923–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Larry_Doby_1953.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1923-12-13"
deathDate: "2003-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6699751861042181
  historical:           10.73360666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "賴瑞·多比"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لارى دوبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Doby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby"
    title: "Larry Doby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby"
    title: "Larry Doby"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby"
    title: "Larry Doby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ラリー・ドビー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9E%98%EB%A6%AC_%EB%8F%84%EB%B9%84"
    title: "래리 도비"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby"
    title: "Larry Doby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby"
    title: "Larry Doby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Доби, Ларри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Doby"
    title: "Larry Doby"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump