Topic: Roy Campanella
Today, I hear the sound of music, not from Carnegie Hall but from Ebbets Field. They are disjointed tones to everybody but Brooklyn Dodger fans. To...
A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars - including Jackie Robinson and James Brown - became a historic district Tuesday on the...
Roy Campanella -- with Jackie Robinson and Don Newcombe -- was a pioneering black ballplayer who boosted a Dodger organization that to this day is acknowledged as one of the top teams in baseball history. Born in Philadelphia, as a youngster Roy Campanella (1921-1993 ...
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In the end, the 1955 baseball season belonged to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Campanella fully recovered from the hand injury that hampered him in 1954 and once again led Brooklyn, batting .318 with 32 home runs en route to a third MVP ...
It was one of many "next years" for the Dodgers. In the National League, the Cardinals' Stan Musial won the batting title with a .355 average. In the American League, Gus Zernial came to Philadelphia via Chicago early in the season to ...
Baseball's most watched team during the 1953 baseball season was the Braves -- the Milwaukee Braves. The Braves finished second to the Dodgers with a 92-62 record and drew a record 1,826,397 fans. Warren Spahn led the staff, topping the ...
Baseball fans of the 1960's and 70's recognize no peer to Johnny Bench, the acknowledged leader of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine. The still active Mike Piazza has many supporters on the basis of his career batting average above .300 ...
