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...find a successor? One theory is that pennants are won by the men up the middle. But Cleveland's Joe Azcue is the league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory days of Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Wes Westrum, and Del Crandall. Around the Keystone, the league's best combinations belong to California (Fregosi-Knoop) and Kansas City (Campaneris-Green). How many people could match Gil, Oyler, Johnson, Carew, and Adair with the pennant contender for which each is starting second baseman? Moving out to center field...
...Among the famous patients he has helped rehabilitate: Joseph Kennedy, Roy Campanella, Martyn Green, Vincent Lopez...
When Judy isn't scaring up a bogus Red-underground menace to get her man, the handsome Ugly American consul (Joseph Campanella), she drones through some tuneless tunes decomposed by Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary. The hula mob masses occasionally for dance gymnastics, the kind that gives playgoers clusterphobia...
Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella was driving at only 30 m.p.h. one winter evening in 1958, when his car skidded into a utility pole. Despite the moderate speed, Campy broke his bull neck in the crackup; he was paralyzed for life, from the chest down. Just one year later, Campy was driven into another accident. This time the car was going 40; the driver and two other passengers wound up in a hospital. But Campy was unhurt. Having learned the hard way that most traffic accidents happen at low speeds and close to home, the ex-ballplayer was wearing a seat...
...that Draconian solution, Castro is doing what he can for the U.S. Negro. He hired Harlem's aging "Black Eagle," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, to buy arms in Europe, and is currently giving Singer Marian Anderson the red-carpet treatment in Havana. Last year he invited Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson to share his New Year's celebration in Havana...