(UPDATING -- CORRECTING ROGAN DESCRIPTION, ADDING INFORMATION) 

*Doby, Rogan, MacPhail, Davis elected to Hall of Fame by Vets*
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Larry Doby, "Bullet" Joe Rogan, Lee MacPhail and George Davis
were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame today by the Veterans
Committee in Tampa, Florida. 

Doby, who became the first black player in the American League
just three months after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier,
was the leading candidate to be elected by the 14-man committee.

Doby debuted with the Cleveland Indians on July 5th, 1947, and
the next 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. 

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

Prior to 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's uniform number 14 was retired by the Indians on July 3rd,
1994, exactly 47 years after he shattered the American League
race barrier.  He was also the second African-American to manage
a team, taking over the Chicago White Sox in the middle of the
1978 season. 

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 second baseman on non-pitching days.  His
best seasons came in 1923 and 1924, when he led the league in
batting and wins. 

Rogan hit .416 with a 15-5 record in 1923 and followed it up
with a .412 average and 14-2 mark in 1924.  He became a
player-manager in 1926 and guided the Monarchs until 1938. After
his retirement, he served as an umpire until 1946. 

Rogan was 77 when he died on March 4th, 1967.  He is fifth among
Negro League pitchers with 113 wins and is considered the
predecessor to the legendary Satchel Paige.  In 15 games against
major leaguers, Rogan batted .389. 

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. 

He then moved on to Baltimore, where he was general manager of
the Orioles from 1958-65.  The Orioles won the World Series the
following season.  MacPhail returned to the Yankees in 1966 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
work stoppage was avoided. 

Davis, a switch hitter, played for the New York Giants at the
turn of the century.  After three subpar seasons with the
Cleveland Spiders from 1890-92, Davis 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 most 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. 

Two other players thought to have a chance to be inducted this
year were Gil Hodges and Bill Mazeroski.  Hodges, who spent 16
years with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, had a career
average of .273 with 370 homers and 1,274 RBI.  Mazeroski was a
steady but unspectacular second baseman for the Pittsburgh
Pirates who hit the most dramatic home run in World Series
history, a blast in the bottom of the ninth of Game Seven in
1960. 

To be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee, an
individual must be named on the ballots of 11 members (75
percent) of the 14-member panel. Individuals are considered in
four categories; former major-league players, players from the
pre-1900 era, Negro League players and a composite category
consisting of managers, executives, umpires and pioneers. 

The Veterans Committee includes former players Yogi Berra, Stan
Musial, Pee Wee Reese and Ted Williams; former executives Joe
Brown, Buzzie Bavasi, Buck O'Neil, Hank Peters and Bill White;
and media members Bob Broeg, Ken Coleman, Leonard Koppett, Allen
Lewis and Jerome Holtzman.  Monte Irvin, a Hall-of-Fame player,
retired from the committee and was not replaced. 

In January, former Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton was the only
player elected to the Hall by the Baseball Writers Association
of America.