Roy Campanella: Major League Baseball Player

Roy Campanella was born on 19 November 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is very difficult for him and his sister Doris to grow on the average street of Philadelphia. They go home from school everyday, they are made a group of white children, sometimes even black children, and the children will call them "half varieties". At that time, they did not know what it meant. Then he realized that his parents were of different races, his mother was a darker skin and his father was a brighter skin.

After 11 weeks on July 5, 1947, the American League came to Cleveland Indians through the signature of Ray Dobby. Over the next few years, several black baseball players, including Roy Campanella (Robinson's Robinson teammate) and Satchel Paige (Cleveland teammate Doby), participated in the Grand Slam tournament. Paige performs more than 2,400 innings in the black league, sometimes 2 or 3 games a day, still 42 years old, still valid in 59 games. His ERA in the main league is 3.29.

When Satchel Page signed the Major League Team in 1948, the Black League 's Death Note rang. Satchel was once the most fascinating star of the 1940's and Negro baseball seems to be decreasing as player's interest decreases without the presence of players like Robinson or Roy Campanella. As blacks slowly entered the major league, the black league gradually disappeared. "By the year 1950, the five major major league teams had black players, seven teams had twenty players by 1953. By 1957, 36 players and 14 clubs There was.) Page 19)

In the majority of the first half of the 20th century, the major league baseball team had not hired black players. Although the parallel system of the black league has developed, most black league players denied the opportunity to prove their skills in front of the audience nationwide. Jackie Robinson became the first African American to join the major leagues in the 20th century and joined the first Major League as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The main reason why Robinson took part in the league is the efforts of Rickey's general manager. Although commercial considerations exist, the deep religious motivation of Rickey seems to be largely moral. Ricky is a member of the Methodist Church, the first denomination of the United Methodist Church of the Day today, strongly supports social justice and later becomes active in the civil rights movement.