David Ray Roberts (Japanese: 池原 礼, Ikehara Rei, born May 31, 1972), nicknamed "Doc", is an American professional baseball manager and former outfielder who is the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for five MLB teams over a ten-year career and then coached for the San Diego Padres before being named Dodgers manager in 2016. Although he played for the Boston Red Sox for only part of one season, his most notable achievement as a player was a key stolen base in the 2004 American League Championship Series that extended the Red Sox's postseason, which culminated in a championship in the 2004 World Series.
The son of an African American father and Japanese mother, Roberts became the first manager of Asian heritage to lead a team to the World Series in 2017, when the Dodgers captured the National League pennant. After another appearance in 2018, Roberts broke through with World Series victories in 2020, 2024, and 2025. Roberts is the first manager of Asian heritage and second Black manager to lead a team to a World Series title following Cito Gaston and preceding Dusty Baker.
Lesen Sie mehr...Der 31. Mai 1972 war ein Mittwoch unter dem Sternzeichen ♊. Es war der 151. Tag des Jahres. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten war Richard M. Nixon.
Wenn Sie an diesem Tag geboren wurden, sind Sie 53 Jahre alt. Ihr letzter Geburtstag war am Samstag, 31. Mai 2025, vor 357 Tagen. Ihr nächster Geburtstag ist am Sonntag, 31. Mai 2026 in 7 Tagen. Sie haben 19.715 Tage gelebt oder ungefähr 473.179 Stunden oder ungefähr 28.390.761 Minuten oder ungefähr 1.703.445.660 Sekunden.
Date: 31 May 1972
By EARL J. JOHNSON
Earl JOHNSON
Former UPI editor E Johnson article on 'new journalism' lauds its emphasis on better reptg; notes T Wolfe description of innovative reptg that includes subjective or emotional life of characters involved; says new journalism is cure for typical news writing style, which he terms 'stand-offish, cold and dull'
Date: 31 May 1972
final pretrial hearing in investigation of pub of Pentagon papers involving D Ellsberg and A J Russo Jr is postponed until June 5; delay is granted to give attys additional time to prepare case
Date: 31 May 1972
By GILBERT SORRENTINO
Gilbert SORRENTINO
excerpt from G Sorrentino novel in which he describes Hemingwayesque type of newsman, brash, rough-spoken and dedicated to reptg news
Date: 01 June 1972
'72 Columbia Univ journalism awards to J McCarthy (Wall Street Journal), G Pressman (WNBC) and J Witcover (Los Angeles Times)
Date: 31 May 1972
Atlanta Gas Light Co and radio station WSB Shining Light Award, in recognition of Georgians whose lives contributed to humanity, to R E McGill (Atlanta Journal Const)
Date: 01 June 1972
members of NY Printing Pressmen's Union 2 delay on May 31 start of 1st edition press run at NY Times to protest Natl Com for Impeachment paid ad calling for impeachment of Pres Nixon for continuing war in Vietnam and increasing air operations there; return to work after Times rejects their demands to drop ad or print statement of their views with ad; Times publisher A O Sulzberger rejects use of econ pressure to censor newspaper's content; Pressmen's chmn Siemers calls ad 'traitorous' and 'detrimental to the boys in Vietnam and POWs'
Date: 31 May 1972
By EDWIN L. DALE Jr.Special to The New York Times
Edwin DALE
US Price Comm announces on May 30 new pricing rules for shoes and other leather goods that reptdly will result in some price rollbacks from present levels but will not prevent some rise in shoe prices stemming from recent steep increase in price of hides; under new rules, 15 major shoe producers are granted relatively small percentage price increases based on all cost increases except leather and later are told they can add higher leather price only on a dollar-for-dollar basis without customary markup
Date: 31 May 1972
Special to The New York Times
NY Times survey of USSR TV programs reveals expectedly heavy dose of programs with pol content but also surprisingly wide range of offerings that have entertainment value; missing from USSR programing are discussion shows on which differing views are expressed on basic natl issues as well as documentary films that add critical dimension to country's problems; Channel 1, basic natl outlet, presents principal pol, cultural and entertainment programs; virtually all programs are pre-recorded to make possible transmission by satellite and by ground-relay lines to 11 USSR time zones; TV movies are very popular, with avg of 3 or 4 shown daily; many movies are on revolutionary and civil war themes; Brit production the Forsyte Saga is one of most popular serial productions of recent yrs; technically, USSR TV still appears to lag behind West; about 1/2 of USSR's 80-million households have TV sets; color TV came into commercial use in '67, and color programs now total 24 hrs a wk out of programing schedule of about 200 hrs on Moscow's 4 channels