Hall of Famer Roy Campanella was born this day in 1921.
Books about the ill-fated catcher include:
- His own It’s Good to Be Alive
, first published in 1959, a year after the accident that put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
- Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella
, an in-depth biography by Neil Lanctot due out next spring via Simon and Schuster.
- The ubiquitous, inspirational bios such as Milton Shapiro’s The Roy Campanella Story
(1959).

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