Of these, only Bruno was executed ; Galileo died under house arrest, and Campanella was imprisoned for twenty-seven years.

Except for Doby, their play in the Negro leagues was a minor factor in their selection: Aaron, Banks, and Mays played in Negro leagues only briefly and after the leagues had declined with the migration of many black players to the integrated minor leagues ; Campanella ( 1969 ) and Robinson ( 1962 ) were selected before the Hall began considering performance in the Negro leagues.

It was a cultural powerhouse during the Baroque era as home to artists including Caravaggio, Rosa and Bernini, philosophers such as Telesio, Bruno, Campanella and Vico, and writers such as Battista Marino.

Roy Campanella ( November 19, 1921 – June 26, 1993 ), nicknamed " Campy ", was an American baseball player, primarily at the position of catcher, in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball.

In 1971, Campanella was elected to the Mexican League Hall Of Fame.

Campanella's 1946 season proceeded largely without racist incidents, and in one game Campanella took over the managerial duties after manager Walter Alston was ejected.

Nashua was three runs down at the time Campanella took over.

That same year, Campanella hit 40 home runs in games in which he appeared as a catcher, a record that lasted until, when it was broken by Todd Hundley.

In, Campanella was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the second player of African American heritage so honored, after Jackie Robinson.

Campanella was the catcher on Stein's black team.

In 1999, Campanella ranked number 50 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

In 2006, Campanella was featured on a United States postage stamp.

Campanella was married three times.

Michael Landon made his TV-movie directorial debut in the 1974 movie It ’ s Good to Be Alive, in which Campanella was portrayed by Paul Winfield.

Roy Campanella was interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on the CBS program Person to Person on October 2, 1953 and again on January 2, 1959.

Campanella was also honored on the famous Ralph Edwards show This Is Your Life.

At the time, such speculation was of a rather rarefied sort, and was limited to astronomers like Christiaan Huygens who wrote a book, Cosmotheoros ( 1698 ) considering the possibility of life on other planets ; or to philosophers like Campanella, who wrote in defense of Galileo.

He also made the claim that his overall influence on the game was greater than that of Chris Avellone, Eric Campanella, or Dave Maldonaldo, but since a producer often has to make unpopular decisions his role was later downplayed.

Tommaso Campanella OP (; 5 September 1568 – 21 May 1639 ), baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.

Born in Stignano ( in the county of Stilo ) in the province of Reggio di Calabria in southern Italy, Campanella was a child prodigy.

Campanella also appeared as Mystery Guest on What's My Line?

Engles and Campanella also took some time to record the soundtrack for the 2005 independent film, Waterborne.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

Peiresc also wrote letters to Galileo, Pierre Gassendi and Tommaso Campanella, whom he defended when they were arrested by the Inquisition.

He was also among the first four black players to be named to a All-Star team, along with teammates Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella and the Indians ' Larry Doby.

It also marked the film debuts of Frank Campanella, Robert Loggia and Dean Jones, all in uncredited bit parts.

As of 2011, he is airing El hombre de tu vida, also directed by Campanella.

Bavasi also publicly linked the team to Clyde Sukeforth, who had scouted Campanella, Newcombe, and Jackie Robinson for Rickey and who had played minor-league baseball in Nashua in the mid-1920s.

Hundley broke the single-season home run record for catchers ( then held by Roy Campanella ) in 1996 with 41 home runs, which was also the single-season record for the Mets.

In 1962 he also moved ahead of Roy Campanella, setting the National League record for career fielding percentage ; however, Johnny Roseboro would edge ahead of him before his career ended.

He has also conducted comprehensive interviews with acclaimed directors as Pedro Almodóvar, Guy Ritchie, Steven Soderbergh, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Luis Mandoki, Alfonso Cuarón, and Juan José Campanella.

Along with Williams, Clendenon also received pointers from some of the players Williams knew from the Negro Leagues, including Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe.

Farentino was one of the lawyers in NBC TV series The Bold Ones ( 1969 – 1972 ), which also starred Burl Ives and Joseph Campanella.

Among his works the following may be mentioned: Opera di Tommaso Campanella, 2 vols.

* In the field of entertainment, Manhattan graduates include: Frank Campanella, TV and motion picture actor on Captain Video ; Joseph Campanella, TV, stage, and motion picture actor on Mannix ; Alexandra Chando, TV actress known for role as Maddie on As The World Turns ; Dennis Day, TV and radio personality on The Jack Benny Program ; Barnard Hughes, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor on Hugh Leonard's Da ; Mike Mazurki, professional wrestler and character actor who appeared in over 100 movies ; Hugo Montenegro, TV and movie soundtrack composer known for theme song for I Dream of Jeannie and The Outcasts ; and Glenn Hughes, founding member of The Village People, radio personality Bob Stei ; and Dan Mannarino, local TV News Reporter at WPIX in NYC.

Other members of the Hall who played in both the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball are Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Willie Mays, and Jackie Robinson.

In, Campanella moved into the Brooklyn Dodgers ' minor league system, as the Dodger organization began preparations to break the Major Leagues ' color barrier with Jackie Robinson.

Jackie Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues came in 1947, and Campanella began his Major League career with the Brooklyn Dodgers the following season, playing his first game on April 20, 1948.

" Brock grew up as a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the team that included Jackie Robinson, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella.

He was one of five Indians selected by Boudreau and joined Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe as the first black players to be amongst those chosen to participate in the 1949 All-Star Game.

After his 1946 military discharge he returned to Brooklyn and saw play as a catcher in 1947, joining the team's already solid nucleus of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Furillo ; but the emergence of Roy Campanella made it evident that Hodges had little future behind the plate, and he was shifted by manager Leo Durocher to first base, where his play came to be regarded as exemplary.

He then tracks the lives of the players ( Clem Labine, George Shuba, Carl Erskine, Andy Pafko, Joe Black, Preacher Roe, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Billy Cox ) over the subsequent years as they aged.

A more mature Snider became the " trigger man " in a power-laden lineup which boasted players, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Carl Furillo, Clem Labine, and Joe Black.

Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and George Shuba batted over. 300, while Roy Campanella ( 97 ) and Gil Hodges ( 102 ) paced the team in RBI ’ s.

With no outs and the bases loaded, he retired Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges and Roy Campanella without giving up a run, saving the game.

The Dodgers, unlike the Reds of a decade and a half before, were a perennial contender in the National League, with a lineup that included four future members of the Baseball Hall of Fame — Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider.

Known as " Ersk ", or more accurately " Oisk ", owing to the Brooklynese diction of the borough, Erskine signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946, and after two minor league seasons he made the team in July as part of a powerful squad that included Roy Campanella, Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider.

* The line-up went like this .... Catcher: Roy Campanella ; first base: Gil Hodges ; second base: Jackie Robinson ; third base, Billy Cox ; shortstop, Pee Wee Reese ; outfield, Duke Snider, Carl Furillo, Andy Pafko, George Shuba ; pitchers, Clem Labine, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe.

Notable American baseball players in history include Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Warren Spahn, Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer, Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, Nolan Ryan, Mike Schmidt, George Brett, Harmon Killebrew, Cal Ripken, Roger Clemens, Rickey Henderson, Barry Bonds, Tony Gwynn, and Jackie Robinson, who was instrumental in dissolving the color line and allowing African-Americans into the major leagues.