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Roy Campanella , nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily as a catcher. The Philadelphia native played in the Negro Leagues and Mexican League for several seasons before entering the minor leagues in 1946. He made his Major League Baseball debut in 1948. His playing career ended when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident in January 1958.Widely considered to be one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game, Campanella played with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s and 1950s.

After he retired as a player as a result of the accident, Campanella held positions in scouting and community relations with the Dodgers.

He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. November 1921 – 26. June 1993
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“Do you have to ask? Willie was pretty good and we never really had a regular left fielder all those years, so I guess I can make room for him in there somewhere.”

Roy Campanella

Roy Campanella, regarding his decision to populate his "ultimate lineup" almost exclusively with teammates; as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Timeː As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, From Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994) by Nicholas Acocella and Donald Dewey, p. 17

“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

Quoted in the New York Journal-American (12 April 1957) http://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&q=%22You+gotta+be+a+man+to+play+baseball+for+a+living+but+you+gotta+have+a+lot+of+little+boy+in+you+too%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage

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