“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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baseball player; born 19 November 1921 Philadelphia Pa; Bal… 1921–1993

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