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*Sutton, Doby among five inducted into Hall of Fame*
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After patiently waiting their turn, Don Sutton and Larry Doby
finally took their place today in the Baseball Hall of Fame. 

Sutton and Doby were among five individuals enshrined in the
sport's hallowed shrine in a 90-minute ceremony at Cooperstown,
New York.  Long-time baseball executive Lee MacPhail, former
Negro League star Joe Rogan and shortstop George Davis, one of
the finest hitters from the deadball era, also were inducted. 

Sutton, the 12th-winningest pitcher of all-time, was bypassed
four times by the baseball writers before finally earning his
ticket.  The 324-game winner shared the stage with Doby, the
second African-American to play in the major leagues but whose
recognition has lagged far behind that of the first, Jackie
Robinson. 

In addition, 94-year-old Sam Lacy was the first African American
honored with the Hall's J.G. Taylor Spink Award and the Ford C.
Frick Award for broadcasting was presented to Jaime Jarrin, the
40-year Spanish voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

Sutton was the only choice of the baseball writers in 1998,
again proving that 300 career wins is a benchmark for induction,
no matter how long it takes to get there.  He had been the only
eligible 300-game winner not enshrined and fell a mere nine
votes shy of induction in 1997, when 318-game winner Phil Niekro
was the writers' only inductee. 

"The wait was worthwhile," said Sutton, the last individual to
be inducted today.  "It was over four years and I wanted to be
here all that time." 

Sutton owns a 324-256 record with a 3.26 ERA in 23 seasons with
Los Angeles, Houston, Oakland, Milwaukee and California.  He
appeared in four All-Star Games and four World Series. 

The knock on Sutton was that his victory total had more to do
with longevity than dominance.  He had just one 20-win season
despite playing on successful teams for most of his career. 
Sutton also led his own staff in wins just four times. 

The 53-year-old Sutton began his career with the Dodgers in 1966
and played his first 15 seasons in Los Angeles, winning a
career-best 21 games in 1976.  One of his finest seasons was
1972, when he was 19-9 with a career-best 2.08 ERA. He had at
least 11 wins in all but two seasons and recorded 58 career
shutouts. 

Sutton, currently a Braves broadcaster, entered the Hall of Fame
as a Dodger, joining a list that includes two of his former
managers -- Walter Alston and Tom Lasorda -- and former
teammates Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax. 

For Sutton, the wait for Cooperstown took a back seat to the
struggles of his 2-year-old daughter, Jackie, who was born 16
weeks premature.  She has battled a series of illnesses but her
life no longer is in danger. 

"For the last two years, you showed how much more important life
is, then the things in life," Sutton said.  "You've been an
inspiration." 

Doby became the first black player in the American League just
three months after Robinson broke the color barrier and was the
leading candidate elected by the 14-man Veteran's Committee. 

Doby debuted with the Cleveland Indians on July 5th, 1947, and
the following year helped lead the team to its last World Series
title.  Over a 13-year career, including 10 seasons with the
Indians, he hit .283 with 253 home runs and 969 RBI. 

"It's a tough thing to look back and think about things that
were probably negative," Doby said of his own battle with
baseball's color barrier.  "I'm happy to be part of the
integration of baseball.  I'm proud and honered to have shown
people that we can live together, work together and play
together." 

In 1950, Doby batted a career-high .326, and he drove in more
than 100 runs on four occasions.  He led the league with 32
homers in both 1952 and 1954, finishing second by 20 votes to
Yogi Berra in MVP voting in 1954. 

Before joining the Indians, Doby was a standout for the Newark
Eagles of the Negro National League.  In 1946, Doby led the
Eagles to the Negro League Championship, batting .397.  The next
year, he was hitting .414 before signing with the Indians. 

Doby also was the second African-American to manage a team,
taking over the Chicago White Sox in the middle of the 1978
season.  The 73-year-old works as a special assistant to AL
President Gene Budig. 

MacPhail teams with his father, Larry, as the first father-son
combination in the Hall of Fame.  Lee MacPhail served as player
personnel director of the New York Yankees from 1948-58,
building a team that won nine American League pennants and seven
World Series championships. 

"My father was brilliant, colorful, dynamic and an innovator.  I
was none of these, but I did learn a lot from him," MacPhail
said of his dad, an executive for the Dodgers and Yankees. 

After his tenure with the Yankees, Lee MacPhail moved to
Baltimore, where he served as general manager of the Orioles
from 1958-65.  Baltimore won the World Series the following
season, when MacPhail returned to the Yankees as vice president
and general manager. 

MacPhail served as American League president from 1974-83 and
was one of the key figures in ending the 1981 baseball strike.
He headed the Player Relations Committee in 1985, when another
long work stoppage was avoided. 

The 80-year-old MacPhail, who served as honorary AL captain at
this year's All-Star Game, was most proud of being selected in
the pioneer's category. 

"The players obviously are the ones here, but many of my peers
have comparable stats and also should be included," he said. 

Rogan honed his baseball skills in the U.S. Army, where he
played for the 25th Infantry Wreckers Army team from 1911-19. He
joined the Kansas City Monarchs in 1920 and was part of four
Negro League pennant-winning teams. 

Rogan played all nine positions, though he was primarily a
starting pitcher and outfielder on non-pitching days.  His best
seasons came in 1923 and 1924, when he led the league in batting
and wins.  He hit .416 with a 15-5 record in 1923 and followed
it up with a .412 average and 14-2 mark in 1924.  Rogan became a
player-manager in 1926 and guided the Monarchs until 1938. 
After his retirement, he served as an umpire until 1946. 

Nicknamed "The Bullet," Rogan died March 4th, 1967 at age 77. 
He is fifth among Negro League pitchers with 113 wins and is
considered the predecessor to the legendary Satchel Paige. 

Davis, a switch hitter, played for the New York Giants at the
turn of the century.  After three subpar years with the
Cleveland Spiders from 1890-92, he batted .300 or better in nine
straight seasons, including a .355 mark in 1893. 

In 1897, he batted .353 with a league-best 134 RBI, four more
than Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle, who holds the modern-day era
for RBI by a switch hitter with 130 in 1956. 

Over a 20-year career that also featured a six-year stint and
seven overall seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Davis batted
.295 with 2,667 hits and 1,435 RBI, scoring 1,544 runs.  He
ended his career with the White Sox in 1909 after playing in
2,376 games.  Davis' lone appearance in the World Series came in
1906, when he was 4-for-13 with six RBI in three games. 

Davis died in 1940 at age 69.  Hall of Fame officials were
unable to find any living relatives, so National League
President Leonard Coleman accepted the award in his honor. 

Lacy is in his 54th year as sports editor of the Baltimore
Afro-American and extensively covered Robinson's struggle to
break the color barrier. 

Today's induction ceremonies increased the membership of the
Hall of Fame to 237, including 178 players and 23 pioneers. 

A crowd of approximately 14,000 attended the proceedings on a
perfect sunny afternoon.   The Baltimore Orioles and Toronto
Blue Jays will play in the traditional Hall of Fame Game on
Monday afternoon. 

The first-time eligibles in 1999 will include all-time strikeout
king Nolan Ryan, who has a record seven no-hitters and 324 wins,
along with George Brett and Robin Yount.  Carlton Fisk and Dale
Murphy also are among those eligible in 1999.