For a few hundred dollars I bought a beautiful baseball from the late 1940s with the signatures of the great Brooklyn Dodgers such as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and Roy Campanella.

Roy Campanella was the sixth African-American ... The St. Louis Browns signed two players from the Kansas City Monarchs. One of them, Willard Brown, became the first African American to hit ...

“If Roy Campanella had been healthy for three or ... to the Los Angeles Coliseum to pay tribute to a Dodgers hero. His autograph breaks down between pre-accident and post-accident.

Roy was born Nov. 19 ... Rickey was determined to integrate all levels of baseball. Rickey signed Campanella and another black player, pitcher Don Newcombe, to play with Nashua, N.H., the Brooklyn ...