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You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Roy Campanella

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Roy Campanella
Age: 71 †
Born: 1921
Born: November 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 26
Baseball Player
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Play
Men
Hitting
Gotta
Baseball
Boys
Living
Littles
Little

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