First mixed-race Baseball Hall of Famer was Roy ‘Campy’ Campanella
Did you know that the first mixed race baseball player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame was an Italian American? Roy “Campy” Campanella was born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia on Nov. 11, 1921. John Campanella, Roy’s father, was a son of Italian Immigrants and his mother Ida was an African American. He later moved to Nicetown in Nor...
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Lawrence Baldassaro (Author of the book “Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball”)
I have always thought, perhaps driven by my love for the Italian American community and the history of its achievements, that the greatest American athlete of all time is Joe DiMaggio, who belonged to that community. There is obviously no official ranking, everybody has their own, mine sees there at the top a very great Italian American. Someone wh...
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