Roy Campanella, born on November 19, 1921, in Pennsylvania, he started pro baseball as a teen. Soon after he began playing in the Negro Leagues. He was becoming the first black catcher in Major League Baseball history by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers. Roy Campanella played on the same team as the first African American major league, Jackie Robinson , who broke the color barrier in 1947.
Campanella was just 15 years old when he first played professional baseball. He dropped out of school to become a member of the Bacharach Giants, in Brooklyn, New York. Not very long after, he joined the Baltimore Elite Giants, a team of the Negro National League. He stayed with the Negro Leagues for nine years, he got payed $3,000 each season he played.
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Campanella worked in his father's produce business and also helped his brother to deliver milk. Roy's dad was a fruit seller he would load his truck every morning of fruit and go to the mark to sell his fruit. Roy's mom would work at the produce bushiness to she would put the items away on the shelf's.
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