The Tragedy of Roy Campanella

Roy Campanella grew up in a section of Philadelphia called, appropriately, Nicetown. “He was like a little Santa Claus.  Everybody loved Campy…This guy was just one happy, great, lovable baseball person.  And that’s about the way I can describe...

1920: A Year of Tragedy and Scandal

Just a few days before the 1920 World Series between the Brooklyn Robins (also known as the Dodgers) and the Cleveland Indians began, Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson turned rumors to fact about gamblers reaching their tentacles into the clubhouse to choke the...