Word: campanella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this far, honey, I'll get home yet," muttered Roy Campanella to his wife after his car overturned three months ago and landed him in a Long Island hospital with an injured spinal cord. The great Dodger catcher still has a long way to go. He is paralyzed in all four limbs. Whether he will walk again, with or without braces and crutches, is still in doubt. But last week his doctors announced that they will soon move him to one of the few places in the world where anything can be done for him: the Institute of Physical...
...From the Glen Cove, N.Y. hospital where a car crash landed him with a broken neck (TIME, Feb. 10) came an encouraging bulletin on Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella. Still paralyzed from the waist down, Roy has improved in "muscle strength," and "he is now able to move his wrists and straighten out his arms. The sense of feeling ... is now down to the upper abdomen...
Three times Campanella was named the most valuable player in the National League. But even when he was not hitting (.242 in 1957), Campy helped the Dodgers by just being around. He coached the rookies who were after his job, relaxed the bench with sly tales of his seven seasons of barnstorming through the hinterlands of Negro baseball. He never got over the fact that he was a grown man being paid to play a boy's game. "You know, I'll play for nothing if I have to," he once told a startled Dodger official during...
Last week Campanella was driving to his home in Glen Cove, N.Y. when his rented 1957 Chevrolet sedan went off the road and crashed into a telephone pole. Campy was bent into a pretzel within the overturned car. His bull neck probably saved him from death, but the impact fractured the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and compressed the spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body...
...York Herald Tribune's Red Smith: "In the great social contribution which baseball has made to America since 1946, Jackie Robinson was the trail blazer, the standard bearer, the man who broke the color line, assumed the burden for his people and made good. Roy Campanella is the one who made friends...