Bill Pascrell: “This resolution, this concurrent resolution honors the life and achievements of Lawrence Eugene ``Larry'' Doby. He left…”

“This resolution, this concurrent resolution honors the life and achievements of Lawrence Eugene ``Larry'' Doby. He left this Earth just a few months ago. His wife died a few years ago. They were inseparable individuals. I know one can read about the history of Larry Doby and one can hear about it and see it in film, but there is something that is spoken today that one will not find in those documentations. Mr. Speaker, in our commercial world of endorsements, free agents, $6.50 a beer at a ball game, and Astroturf, I want to pause today to praise the great stature of a man who played baseball when baseball was baseball. He was more than a civil rights leader. He was more than a Hall of Fame baseball player. He was a Hall of Fame human being. To him, to Larry Doby, community was critical. No man was living on an island. I am so proud to be a resident, a lifelong resident of Paterson, New Jersey, and I always say one ``T'', because that is where Larry made his fame, at East Side High School. He was a star in four sports, and he achieved. He attended Long Island University, went into the Navy, served this country, served this country, and came out and played minor league baseball for a while on teams where you had to be all one color.”