Legendary Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe, who was one of the first Black players to join the major leagues, died on Tuesday morning at age 92 of a lengthy illness, the team ...

He could have been the angriest man at Dodger Stadium. Instead, he was the most elegant. Don Newcombe, who died Tuesday, was a monument in a fedora, history with a sport coat, a legend bearing a ...

Dodgers great Don Newcombe passed away Tuesday after a lengthy illness, the team said in a statement. He was 92. Newcombe is the first player to win the Cy Young, MVP and Rookie of the Year awards.

Don Newcombe, an early African-American pitching star who helped integrate Major League Baseball and whose struggle with alcoholism led him to become one of the first ex-players to lead a team’s ...

Don Newcombe is recognized for many firsts throughout his lengthy Major League Baseball career. The first player to win National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1949. Winner of the inaugural Cy ...

LOS ANGELES - Don Newcombe, the intimidating righthanded pitcher who was the first player in major league history to have won rookie of the year, Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards, died Tuesday ...

Don Newcombe, the Cy Young-winning pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Cincinnati Reds, died at his home in New Jersey on Tuesday. He was 92. The Dodgers announced his death via ...

Don Newcombe pitched in the Major Leagues from 1949 until 1960, and on his best days he was fearsome. “Newk,” as he was known to his teammates on the Dodgers, won 17 games in his first season and was ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

Even on a desolate winter afternoon with a chill wind whistling through empty seats, Don Newcombe elegantly strides into deserted Dodger Stadium dressed like he is visiting a palace. Gray sport coat, ...

In 1956, Don Newcombe became the first pitcher to win both the Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Award. It was the first year of the Cy Young Award. Only one was given until 1967, when one was given ...