Boston Red Sox - Larry Whiteside; Globe writer aided other black journalists - The Boston Globe

Larry Whiteside broke both barriers and stories as a baseball writer for the Boston Globe. Mr. Whiteside, who died at age 69 yesterday at Kindred Hospital-Boston in Brighton after a lengthy illness, was hired by the Globe in 1973 and quickly became the only African-American reporter covering a major league baseball team on a daily basis for a major metropolitan newspaper. He was also the first ... [link]