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Donald Newcombe (June 14, 1926 – February 19, 2019), nicknamed "Newk", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played ten non-consecutive seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He began his career in the Negro National League and ended it in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
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Feb 20, 2019 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 and Cy Young awards, has died.
Feb 19, 2019 · Don Newcombe, the major leagues’ first outstanding black pitcher and a star for the Brooklyn Dodgers in their glory years, the 1950s, died on Tuesday. He was 92.
Feb 14, 2024 · 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.
Feb 19, 2019 · Don Newcombe, one of the greatest pitchers in Dodgers history and one of the franchise's final links to Brooklyn and the days of Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, died Tuesday after a lengthy illness.
Feb 19, 2019 · Don Newcombe, the intimidating right-handed 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...
Feb 20, 2019 · In Don Newcombe, Baseball Got Its First Black Ace. Just four years after Major League Baseball’s integration, Newcombe won 20 games for the Dodgers. That was the start of an extraordinary club...
Feb 19, 2019 · Right-hander Don Newcombe, who was the third African-American pitcher to appear in a major-league game and who won the first Cy Young Award in 1956, has died at the age of 92.
Feb 19, 2019 · Brooklyn Dodgers great Don Newcombe, among the first wave of African-American players in Major League Baseball, dies at 92.
