From www.CheckOutMyCards.com , a 1955 Bowman baseball card of former Brooklyn Dodgers’ catcher Roy Campanella. “Campy” was without a doubt one of the best major league catchers of all time, and after playing in the Negro and Mexican Leagues signed with the Dodgers in 1948, a year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line. He was an integral part of “Dem Bums” – as the Dodgers were affectionately called by their fans in that era. He was an eight-time all-star, was National League MVP 3 times, helped the Dodgers win a World Series in 1955, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Campanella’s career was tragically cut short when he was paralyzed in a car accident in 1958. He died at his home in California of a heart attack in 1993.