It's Roy Campanella days until Opening Day.
Campy hit more home runs against HOFer Robin Roberts (13) than he did against any other pitcher. For most of his career, Roberts played for the Phillies, the current team of the other most-famous Roy in baseball: Halladay. (Friendly reminder: Hobbs was not real.)
Campy threw out 57.4% of base-stealers in his career, the best rate ever. He topped 60% four times, two of those times pushing 70% (68.6% in 1948, 69.4% in 1951). Just to put that into perspective, here is the number of catchers who have had single seasons of at least Campy's career average of 57.4% in the past 40 years: seven.
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