    
Title: Roy Campanella Description: Former African American Major League baseball player and eight time MLB All Star, Roy Campanella (1921-1993) (Right Center) poses with baseball commissioner William Eckert (1909-1971)(Second from Left) and two other fellow ballplayers at his National Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1969. Campanella played professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1948-1957 while amassing career totals of a.276 batting average (BA), 242 home runs (HR) and 856 runs batted in (RBI). Campanella was one of the first African Americans to break the color barrier in baseball and is considered to be one of the greatest catchers of all time. Campanella won a World Series Championship, won the National League MVP award three times and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Tragically, his career was cut short in 1958 when he suffered paralysis stemming from a car accident; Category: Sports Keywords: National Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees, retired baseball numbers, MLB catchers, Brooklyn Dodgers players, African American athletes, African American baseball players, Italian American athletes, Italian American baseball players, National League All Stars, Negro league baseball players, World Series Champions, National League MVP award winners, NL MVP award Winners Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2325 x 1955 (4.55 MPixels) (1.19) Print Size: 19.7 x 16.6 cm; 7.8 x 6.5 inches File Size: 13.03 MB (13,666,048 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000301820 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
