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Order Number	00081507
Title	Roy Campanella gets great ovation
Photographer	Courtney, Tom.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	SCHH_b001_f1_i8
Date	1959
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;31 x 24 cm.
Notes	Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.;Used in the Exhibit: L.A. Baseball: From the Pacific Coast League to the Major Leagues.
Description	In the winter of 1957, Dodgers' veteran catcher Roy Campanella was readying to move to L.A. He had leased a home in Redondo Beach and promised Walter O'Malley that he would play several more seasons. However, Campanella was permanently paralyzed in a car accident in January of 1958 while driving from Harlem to his home on Long Island. On May 7, 1959, the largest crowd in Major League Baseball history--some 93,103--filled the Coliseum to honor Campanella, in a exhibition game against the New York Yankees. Campanella is flanked by managers Walter Alston (left) and Casey Stengel, with supervisor Kenneth Hahn (behind Stengel) and shortstop Pee Wee Reese (rear right) in the background. Photograph dated: May 8, 1959.
Subject	Campanella, Roy,--1921-1993. Alston, Walter,--1911-1984. Stengel, Casey. Hahn, Kenneth. Reese, Pee Wee,--1918-1999. Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team). Baseball--California--Los Angeles. Baseball players--United States. Baseball managers--United States. People with disabilities--California--Los Angeles. County council members--California--Los Angeles County. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection