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