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<text id=93TT0128>
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July 12, 1993: Died:Roy Campanella
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
July 12, 1993 Reno:The Real Thing
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 19
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<p> DIED. ROY CAMPANELLA, 71, baseball catcher; of a heart attack;
in Woodland Hills, California. Born of an Italian father and
a black mother in Philadelphia, the phenomenally gifted Campanella
was a Negro League first-string catcher by the age of 16. By
the time he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948, one year after
Jackie Robinson had broken baseball's color barrier with the
team, Campanella was an experienced 26. Over the extraordinary
decade that followed, he was named Most Valuable Player in three
seasons, and he set a single-season home-run record for a catcher--41 homers hit in 1953. But his career ended in an instant
in January 1958, when a car he was driving skidded into a telephone
pole and he lost all movement below his shoulders. In 1959 a
benefit game in Campanella's honor at the Los Angeles Coliseum
attracted 93,103 fans, to this day probably the largest crowd
ever to attend a baseball game. In 1969 he entered the Hall
of Fame.
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