Larry Doby Day Celebration Presentation with Mary Manning, PhD.

Join the Baseball Heritage Museum and presenter Mary Manning, PhD for Larry Doby Day! Larry Doby was a player for the Cleveland Indians who made history when he became the second Black player to play in the MLB and the first to play in the American Leagues. He later played for the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers, and the Chunichi Dragons.

Mary Manning, Ph.D., is the PK-12 Education Manager, YEE Project Director, and Region 3 Ohio History Day Coordinator at the Cleveland History Center of the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS). Prior to joining WRHS in 2017, she spent two years stationed at the Oberlin Heritage Center as an AmeriCorps Member in the Ohio History Service Corps, helping Cleveland-area history organizations refine and expand their operations. She received her B.A. in Art History and French from Case Western Reserve University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.