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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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- <article>
- <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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