Roy Campanella

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