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From his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948, Roy Campanella looked more like a weight lifter than a baseball player. With 215 lbs. packed on a 5 ft. 9 in. frame, he had a barrel belly and a pair of massive legs. But on a baseball diamond Campanella was an athlete of grace who bolted the bases with a sprinter's furious stride and howitzered the long ball to left with a short, powerful swing...
...when he strapped on his catcher's gear and settled into a crouch behind the plate, Campy was at home. Whistling pegs to second, blocking runners from the plate, chirping encouragement to his pitchers, Roy Campanella was the complete professional (TIME...
...Winston Churchill, orated by Cinemactor David Niven. Day before the show, inveterate Baseball Fan Barrymore, taking it easy in a wheelchair during tiring rehearsals, batted the breeze with Daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt and some diamond luminaries who later took part in the TV salute-Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, NBC Sport Consultant Leo ("The Lip" ) Durocher, The New York Yankees' crusty Manager Casey Stengel, and the World Champion Milwaukee Braves' Manager Fred Honey...
...matter as long as he goes to the rosin bag before making a pitch. The rosin bag has become his father confessor. It absolves him of all sin." As a bench jockey, Burdette has been challenged to fisticuffs by Jackie Robinson, once even goaded even-tempered Roy Campanella into chasing him with a bat. Off the field the Braves got to know...
This is Brooklyn's year--to lose. With the loss of Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine, and the slowdown of Roy Campanella and Peewee Reese, the Bums are a shell of their former magnificent selves. The pitching of Don Newcombe, Don Drysdale, the aging Sal Maglie, and Clem Labine, plus the hitting of Junior Gilliam, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Carl Furillo will keep the Dodgers in contention...