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17 de ago. de 2020 · Campanella suffered a broken fifth vertebra in his back, costing him almost complete use of his body below the shoulders. He finished his 10-year career with the Dodgers with 242 home runs, 856 RBI and five postseason appearances. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1969, and passed away on June 26, 1993. Read more.
4 de ene. de 2012 · Roy Campanella’s lifetime batting average for 10 major-league seasons was .276 and he hit 242 home runs while driving in 856 runs in 1,215 games. His 1953 totals of 41 homers and 142 RBIs stood as single-season highs for a catcher until Johnny Bench hit 45 homers and drove in 148 runs in 1970.
Hace 4 días · Campanella did not live to see Piazza achieve stardom. That summer, he suffered a heart attack and was gone by the time paramedics arrived. But his legacy, both as a ballplayer and as a symbol of hope to the disabled, was more than assured. "No one had more courage than Roy Campanella," Dodger owner Peter O'Malley said.
Roy Campanella played 10 seasons for the Dodgers. He had a .276 batting average, 1,161 hits, 242 home runs, 856 RBIs and 627 runs scored. He won 3 MVP awards and 1 World Series.
Roy Campanella nicknamed "Campy” by his teammates, was an American professional baseball player playing in both the Negro Leagues and the Major Leagues, primarily as a catcher. He played in both the Negro National League II and Mexican League, doing so for nine years before entering minor league ( MLB) for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946.
27 de jun. de 2018 · Campanella, Roy. ( b. 19 November 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. 26 June 1993 in Woodland Hills, California), Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player who was the premier catcher in the National League during the 1950s and was instrumental in the eradication of baseball’s color line.
24 de dic. de 2019 · Roy Campanella was the sixth African-American player in the Major Leagues. He often gets skipped over when people tell the story of integration, but he was there at the beginning, when the fate of ...
