Roy Campanella

CTL-E-6024 · Person · other · 1921–1993

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Combined Graph record U-07252 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6024.

Roy Campanella (born November 19, 1921, Philadelphia; died June 26, 1993, Woodland Hills, California) was a catcher who starred on both sides of baseball's color line. He began in the Negro leagues as a teenager with the Washington Elite Giants in 1937 and became a star with the Baltimore Elite Giants, also playing in the Mexican League, before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. He debuted in the majors on April 20, 1948, and caught for Brooklyn for ten seasons, winning the National League Most Valuable Player award three times, in 1951, 1953, and 1955, and catching the Dodgers' 1955 World Series championship team. In 1953 he set single-season records for a catcher with 41 home runs and 142 runs batted in. An automobile accident in January 1958 left him paralyzed and ended his playing career; he remained with the Dodgers in scouting and community roles and entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.

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• Also known as: Campy

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 10; third Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Roy Campanella entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6024 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 2 packet ordered reserve, position 19 of 25 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1291). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Negro leagues-to-majors bridge figure of the integration era; peer line to the packet's Homestead Grays record. Vital status: DECEASED — died June 26, 1993, aged 71 (NLBPA; Wikipedia). Tribute treatment in the Curator's Judgment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: Wikipedia's infobox tabulation gives Campanella's major league career as .283, 260 home runs, 1,019 RBI (a tabulation that folds in Negro league figures), while the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame gives Dodgers-only career figures of .276, 242 home runs, 856 RBI. Both are carried labeled by scope; neither is merged. MVP awards 1951, 1953, 1955 (all sources). MEDIA: photo HELD (Roy Campanella in Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, 1956 season (the dated portrait carried on his reference pages; PHOTO-001 verification still required) named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6024-roy-campanella.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (233 entries, checked by name); slot held.) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Sources

• Negro League Baseball Players Association, Roy Campanella profile (accessed 2026-10-16) — born November 19, 1921, died June 26, 1993; three NL MVP awards; 1953 catcher records of 41 home runs and 142 RBI; nearly a decade starring with the Baltimore Elite Giants; career ended by an auto accident before the 1958 season — https://www.nlbpa.com/the-athletes/campanella-roy (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, Roy Campanella (accessed 2026-10-16) — Negro leagues debut 1937, major league debut April 20, 1948, Brooklyn tenure to 1957, January 1958 paralyzing crash, Hall of Fame induction 1969, career line .283 with 260 home runs and 1,019 RBI as tabulated there — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Campanella (build store)
• Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame, Roy Campanella inductee profile (accessed 2026-10-16) — ten Dodgers seasons, nine prior Negro league seasons, three MVP seasons each above .300 with 30-plus home runs and 100-plus RBI, number 39 retired — http://www.phillyhall.org/inductee_profile.asp?ind=47 (build store)

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