The coolest of them all? Mantle, Mays, or Doby?
The Branch Rickey yardstick
Bill Veeck compared
Doby breaks the color line in the American League
Doby's middle years: world championships, home run and RBI titles
It takes a village (and more): efforts at breaking the color line in baseball
The shadow cast by Rickey and Robinson
The second shadow? A tale of two cities
Playing in the American League
The long shadow of Satchel Paige
Should Paige have been the first? The Mantle shadow? Mickey, Mantle Boulevard, Mantle Museum, Mick Lit, Mick Legend, the MIck
Conflation of the Mantle legend
Willie Mays and "the catch"
Casting their own shadows: Robinson, Doby, and the news media
Doby's later years
Doby, Robinson, baseball, and racism
A seldom-remembered pioneer.