Roy Campanella

thumb| 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 (19 November 1921 – 26 June 1993), nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily at the position of catcher, in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball. Quotes You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. Quoted in the New York Journal-American (12 April 1957) 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. 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 "I hit 20 home runs that year,practically with no hands"--Campanella on his 1956 season;IT'S G OOD TO BE ALIVE. Campanella spoke of the downside of 20 years of catching---he had to have bone chip[ operations on his hands almost every off-season,and at the end of his career he was wearing a second glove under his regular mitt "to ease the impact of catching a fast ball". External links Category:Baseball players from the United States Category:1921 births Category:1993 deaths Category:People from Philadelphia Category:National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees