Pats and Red Sox gear.Robert McCloskey's "Make Way For Ducklings" was first published in 1941. Mrs. Mallard and her brood are honoring Boston Bruins pioneer Willie O'Ree in the Public Garden.

BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins will wait ... but still before the crosstown Red Sox fielded their first Black player. O'Ree, 85, played two games for the Bruins that season and 43 more in 1960-61 ...

“Blue Bloods” star Donnie Wahlberg sitting next to the dugout at the Red Sox–White Sox game at ... scored in the fifth … Former Bruin Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL ...

NHL rolls out the red carpet for ‘Soul On Ice’ movie “Willie O’Ree is the NHL’s Jackie ... On Jan. 18, 1958, a year and a half before the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League ...

Willie O’Ree is kind of ... the next three home games in Boston. The celebration didn’t just take place inside the packed TD Garden, either. The Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park, the New England ...

BOSTON (AP) — Hockey pioneer Willie O'Ree was honored in Boston on Wednesday on the 60th anniversary of the Bruins forward breaking the NHL's color barrier. At a news conference at the TD Garden ...

Willie O’Ree’s 29-day road trip began on June 22 in Toronto with the annual NHL awards. And then it was off to Boston for the draft ... for a roast of referee Red Story, a Canadian Airlines ...

It’s been 67 years since Willie O’Ree became the first black player in the NHL when he made his debut with the Boston Bruins on Jan. 18, 1958. He has made significant contributions to the ...