Larry Doby/negro Leagues 1942-43 1946-1947 and Wwii

Famous quotes containing the words larry, negro and/or leagues:

    I’ve yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
    Michael Tolkin, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher)

    ... in every State there are more women who can read and write than the whole number of illiterate male voters; more white women who can read and write than all Negro voters; more American women who can read and write than all foreign voters.
    —National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.
    Chinese proverb.