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Rare bird: O's catcher Wieters is at home around the plate: Great ones are hard to find. In the last half of the 20th century, only a handful of catchers rose above the crowd: Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Johnny Bench, Carlton Fisk, Mike Piazza and Ivan Rodriguez combined the physical tools with the leadership characteristics to entrench themselves with their teams, endear themselves to their fans and put up numbers worthy of Cooperstown.
54 Things about Ryan Howard: 1. Shares a Nov. 19 birthday with Meg Ryan, Calvin Klein, Roy Campanella, Dick Cavett, Jodie Foster, Gene Tunney and Larry King.
1955 World Series MVP Podres dies at 75 (AP):
Dodgers pitcher Johnny Podres, right, is lifted by catcher Roy Campanella (39) after the final out of the seventh and deciding game of the World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York, in this Oct. 4, 1955 file photo. Running toward them is third baseman Don Hoak. Podres, who held the Yankees to eight scattered hits for a 2-0 victory to give Brooklyn its first baseball championship in eight World Series, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008. (AP Photo)" align="left" border="0">
As soon as he heard Johnny Podres had died, Don Newcombe recalled that famous moment more than a half-century ago. "My mind went back to Yankee Stadium, 1955, the seventh game of the World Series," said Newcombe, also a member of that Brooklyn Dodgers championship team. "I thank God for Johnny Podres.
Twins: Dodgertown closes in on its last pitch: VERO BEACH, FLA. -- Billy DeLury made his first visit to Dodgertown in 1951, and he has memories of sitting around this spring training site, listening to the Boys of Summer shoot the breeze. The Dodgers' longtime traveling secretary walks down the hallway from the old clubhouse and sees the old black-and-white photos on the wall. Somehow, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider and Gil Hodges are still larger than life. "You hear the echo," DeLury said. "Some things you never forget." For decades, the Dodgers made sure people wouldn't forget their Brooklyn legacy. They o
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