Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella
by Neil Lanctot
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1416547045
- ISBN 13
- 9781416547044
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 516 pages includes index, b&w photos. Neil Lanctot’s biography of Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella—filled with surprises—is the first life of the Dodger great in decades and the most authoritative ever published. Born to a father of Italian descent and an African- American mother, Campanella wanted to be a ballplayer from childhood but was barred by color from the major leagues. He dropped out of school to play professional ball with the Negro Leagues’ Washington (later Baltimore) Elite Giants, where he honed his skills under Hall of Fame catcher Biz Mackey. Campy played eight years in the Negro Leagues until the major leagues integrated. Ironically, he and not Jackie Robinson might have been the player to integrate baseball, as Lanctot reveals. An early recruit to Branch Rickey’s “Great Experiment” with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Campy became the first African-American catcher in the twentieth century in the major leagues. As Lanctot discloses, Campanella and Robinson, pioneers of integration, had a contentious relationship, largely as a result of a dispute over postseason barnstorming. Clean copy. Record # 378924
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 378924
- Title
- Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella
- Author
- Neil Lanctot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1416547045
- ISBN 13
- 9781416547044
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Sports, Baseball, , .
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