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From Cleveland’s own Jesse Owens winning four Olympic golds in 1936 at Berlin to Larry Doby following Jackie Robinson’s lead and becoming the American League’s first Black player and more.

“I’m the Larry Doby of opera,” he joked, referring to the baseball player who was the second Black man after Jackie Robinson to break the major league color barrier.

The homer was Ramírez’s 216th, moving him past Hall of Famer Larry Doby and into a tie for fifth with Carlos Santana and Hal Trosky on the Cleveland list.

Instead, Doby argued decisions made by organ procurement organizations are crucial, including when and how they talk to families.

“There’s no reason why we should believe that there are significant deficits among a racial or ethnic group that are somehow intrinsic to that group,” said health services researcher Brianna Doby, one of the authors of that analysis.