Roy Campanella, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ chunky catcher, was reported “somewhat better” early this morning at the Long Island hospital where he lay, paralyzed and in traction, with a broken ...

May 7, 1959 - Arguably the most important game associated with Roy Campanella was one in which ... A little more than 15 months after he was paralyzed in a car accident, the Dodgers gave Campy ...

He is paralyzed in all four limbs ... taxes alone match the public funds spent on them during disability. Roy Campanella will have plenty of inspiring examples of a rehab axiom: if the patient ...

His name is Roy Campanella. Campanella’s journey to ... As a result, he was paralyzed from his shoulders down. After a significant stay in the hospital where Campanella fought to live, the ...

Campanella was lucky to survive the crash, but was paralyzed from the chest down. A preseason game in his honor in 1959 drew 93,103 fans. Campanella was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1969 and ...

On Jan. 29, 1958, Campanella was involved in a tragic car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck ... the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on "Roy Campanella Night" for an exhibition game ...

Late at night on January 28, 1958, Roy Campanella was driving home to Glen Cove, New York from the liquor store in Harlem he owned and ran in the off-season. His car struck an icy spot in the road ...

("Dodgers fans turn to lucky jerseys, sweaters, rosaries and prayer to help team win the title," Nov. 1) On the morning of Jan. 28, 1958, catcher Roy Campanella was in a bad car crash in a nearby ...

A paying crowd of 93,103, largest in the history of baseball, jam the L.A. Coliseum to watch an exhibition game honoring Roy Campanella, the former Brooklyn Dodgers catcher who was paralyzed in an ...