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Don Newcombe’s lost interview: Dodger great talks about barriers and breaking them down

LA Daily News
Published June 14, 2017 at 7:35 AM

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Nearly all the men who broke baseball's color barrier in the 1940s - Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby - are no longer with us.One who remains is former pitcher Don Newcombe, who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 and is still a member of the team's management. Newcombe, who turns 91 today, was present at the start of the game's integration, signing with the Dodgers' minor-league organization in 1946 after two years in the Negro Leagues.

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