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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
...still the slickest shotmaker in the business. Before he was through, Pettit had scored 28 points (an All-Star record) and taken 26 rebounds (another record), although his Western team lost to the East, 130-118. For such heroics Pettit was named the game's most valuable player...
...Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play their own rugged brand of ball, but he survived the rattling rites of passage. On offense, his soft, floating jump shot is a model for the league. On defense, he has tactics for every player, e.g., against Cincinnati he presses hook-shooting Clyde Lovellette, but he lies back for the dribbling of Maurice Stokes. In addition, Pettit's rubber-legged rebounding starts the Hawks hustling on their fast break...
...George Yardley and Syracuse's Dolph Schayes). For these deeds Pettit gets about $20,000 a year from the Hawks, and the devout admiration of St. Louis fans. If he stays in one piece, say the experts, Bob Pettit may turn out to be the greatest player in the history of the game. Even St. Louis Captain Chuck Share's two-year-old daughter Susie realizes who is really leading her daddy's team into basketball's World Series this spring. Susie's nightly prayers might well be murmured by all St. Louis basketball buffs...