Roy+Campanella

[|Roy Campanella] Allen Proulx 8 orange Odd Born on November 19th, 1921; Roy Campanella became one of the biggest pioneers for Civil Rights in Major League Baseball in the 1940's. Campanella once said, "I never want to quit playing ball. They’ll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it." But little did he know that he would be paralyzed from the waist down in a tragic car accident. Campanella was the All-Star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. With Campanella, the Dodgers won the 1955 World Series, and were National League Champions a few times. The World Series Championship was partly due to Roy Campanella's MVP award-winning season. Campanella won two other MVP awards in 1951 and 1953, and he was voted into the All-Star game 8 times in his career. He was inducted into Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.

Quotes from Campanella: //"You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too."// -Roy Campanella //"I never want to quit playing ball. They’ll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it."// -Roy Campanella

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