FILE - In this April 13, 2015, file photo, former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe acknowledges fans prior to a baseball game between the Dodgers and the Seattle Mariners, in Los Angeles.

The Blue Jays starting pitcher Trey Yesavage kept the Dodgers on their toes throughout Game 5, and hit history in the process ...

Don Newcombe, who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers as a pitcher in the 1940s died on Tuesday. He was 92. Newcombe was one of the first black pitchers in Major League Baseball. The baseball pitcher Don ...

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 ...

Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers was the first ever to win the prestigious trio of baseball honors, earning the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and Most Valuable Player Awards. He also won a longtime ...

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.

“Newk.” That’s all you needed to hear. Everyone knew who that was. Like everyone who lives in Boca Raton, FL, says they live in Boca, never Boca Raton, no one who followed baseball in the ‘50s ever ...

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 a supreme irony, the same week Chicago police outed “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett as a fake victim seeking public sympathy and higher pay, a real victim, 1950s Dodgers pitching ace Don Newcombe, ...

LOS ANGELES -- Don Newcombe, the hard-throwing Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who was one of the first black players in the major leagues and who went on to win the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player ...

LOS ANGELES – Don Newcombe, the hard-throwing Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who was one of the first black players in the major leagues and who went on to win the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player ...