- Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1998. Played for the American League's Cleveland Indians (1947-1955, 1958), Chicago White Sox (1956-1957, 1959) and Detroit Tigers (1959).
- 1948, the year of Larry Doby's arrival in Cleveland to play for the Indians, they won the World Series
- Larry Doby is the first African-American to play in the American League of Major League Baseball. He was called up to play for the Cleveland Indians in 1948.
- State highway 120 in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA is named Larry Doby Highway in his honor.
- Moved from Camden, South Carolina, USA as a youth to live in Paterson, New Jersey, USA
- With Don Newcombe, Doby was the first former major leaguer to play for a Japanese baseball team (the Chunichi Dragons).
- Prior to the Cleveland Indians, he played four years with the Newark Eagles of the Negro Leagues.
- Seven time All-Star with the Indians and two time All-Star with the Eagles.
- Manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1978.
- He was nominated for the inaugural 2007 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services and contributions to sports.
- Father of Larry Doby Jr..
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 148-150. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
- He was nominated for the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services and contributions to Sports.
- He was inducted into the 2010 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services and contributions to Sports.
- Pictured on one of a set of 4 USA nondenominated commemorative postage stamps issued 20 July 2013, celebrating Major League Baseball All-Stars. Price on day of issue was 45¢. Others honored in this issue were Ted Williams, Willie Stargell, and Joe DiMaggio.
- Childhood friend of Joe Taub (Paterson, New Jersey, 29 May 1929-27 October 2017, Manhattan), co-founder with his brother Henry Taub and Frank Lautenberg of Automatic Data Processing and part owner of the New Jersey Nets from1978 to around 2000.
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