TAILIEUCHUNG - Ebook Notable Sports Figures 1: Part 2

(BQ) Notable Sports Figures takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field or controversy off the playing field. It provides biographical coverage of people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. Each biography features information on the entrant’s family life, early involvement in sports, career highlights, championships, and awards. Notable Sports Figures also examines the impact that the subject had and continues to have on his or her sport, and the reasons why the individual is “notable.” This includes consideration of the successes and failures, on the field and off, that keep the person in the public eye. | Roy Campanella 1921-1993 American baseball player Known as Campy by his friends colleagues and fans Roy Campanella is considered by many to be the best baseball catcher in the history of the game. He is often mentioned in the same breath as the great catcher Yogi Berra who played for the opposing professional league the American League. Named the National League s Most Valuable Player three times in the 1950s Campanella was a pioneering African American player at a time of deep racial prejudice that had prevented blacks from playing in the major leagues until only a year before Campanella joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. Campanella played on the same team as the first African American major leaguer Jackie Robinson who broke the color barrier in 1947. Not only was Campanella one of the first African Americans to play in the major leagues he also paved the way for other blacks to play in the position of catcher a spot until then still off-limits to non-white players. As former fellow Dodger Dusty Baker later told Larry Whiteside of the Boston Globe In the days when he caught catching was basically a white position. Catching was a thinking position that most of America didn t think people like Campanella could handle. He broke the mold. Because of the mentality of the country the mentality of baseball to be black and an MVP meant he had to be head and shoulders above anybody else in the league. Campanella s career lasted until 1958 when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident. From then on a total of 35 years until his death he was confined to a wheelchair. He managed to stay in the game of baseball however as a coach and advocate for young baseball players. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 and he died of a heart attack in 1993. A Born Catcher Roy Campanella was born in Homestead Pennsylvania on November 19 1921. His mother Ida was African Roy Campanella American while his father John was an immigrant from Italy. As a boy Campanella worked

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