Roy Campanella

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 19, 1921 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1948

Final gameSeptember 29, 1957

Seasons18 (1937–1957)

Washington Elite Giants 1937; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938–1942; Baltimore Elite Giants 1944; Philadelphia Stars 1944; Baltimore Elite Giants 1945; Brooklyn Dodgers 1948–1957

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

123

3.7

522

446

9.9

56.8

142

45.7

34.6

3.7

90.1

RBI

107

87.7

46.9

77.8

22.2

45.7

.318

93.8

OBP

.395

87.7

SLG

.583

92.6

OPS

.978

95.1

wRC+

152.6

92.6

OPS+

153.9

92.6

wOBA

.418

92.6

sWAR

6.1

91.4

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.9

85.7

OPS+

126.7

87.3

sWAR

48.4

98.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	7	24	22	3	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.182	.217	.227	.445	23.9	14.7	.207	-0.1
1938	9	31	30	4	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.200	.226	.200	.426	23.5	13.2	.203	-0.2
1939	18	55	46	6	10	1	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	.217	.265	.239	.504	44.0	34.6	.244	-0.1
1940	35	126	119	18	31	5	1	6	25	6	1	1	0	.261	.302	.471	.772	93.2	98.7	.348	0.6
1941	37	143	128	26	41	11	3	4	22	12	6	3	1	.320	.392	.547	.938	149.2	160.9	.423	1.7
1942	42	167	150	22	42	8	3	1	26	14	6	2	1	.280	.345	.393	.739	106.6	110.4	.350	0.9
1944	35	151	143	30	55	13	2	2	30	8	0	5	0	.385	.417	.545	.963	148.0	156.7	.443	1.6
1945	57	239	207	51	77	18	5	5	48	31	0	3	0	.372	.456	.580	1.036	177.4	189.1	.479	3.6
1948	83	321	279	32	72	11	3	9	45	36	45	3	0	.258	.345	.416	.761	103.4	103.1	.351	1.9
1949	130	507	436	65	125	22	2	22	82	67	36	3	0	.287	.385	.498	.883	134.0	132.4	.399	4.9
1950	126	494	437	70	123	19	3	31	89	55	51	1	0	.281	.364	.551	.916	134.8	136.1	.400	4.8
1951	143	562	505	90	164	33	1	33	108	53	51	1	2	.325	.393	.590	.983	160.5	159.8	.432	7.3
1952	128	533	468	73	126	18	1	22	97	57	59	8	4	.269	.352	.453	.805	122.6	121.9	.367	4.4
1953	144	590	519	103	162	26	3	41	142	67	58	4	2	.312	.395	.611	1.006	155.5	155.9	.432	7.2
1954	111	446	397	43	82	14	3	19	51	42	49	1	4	.207	.285	.401	.686	71.2	75.3	.306	0.8
1955	123	522	446	81	142	20	1	32	107	56	41	2	3	.318	.395	.583	.978	152.6	153.9	.418	6.1
1956	124	461	388	39	85	6	1	20	73	66	61	1	0	.219	.333	.394	.727	86.9	90.7	.319	1.8
1957	103	380	330	31	80	9	0	13	62	34	50	1	0	.242	.316	.388	.703	79.2	83.2	.310	1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1945	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	13	9	6	16	1	15.3	5.28	1.239	9.39	3.85	93.4	78.0	3.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,455

5,752

5,050

787

1,427

235

260

233rd-most career HR

RBI

1,015

293rd-most career RBI

608

514

.2826

OBP

.3627

419th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4962

140th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8589

155th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.283

WHIP

1.2391

K/9

9.39

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1950-08-26	LAD @ CIN Gameday	3	3	3	0	3	6	1	12
1951-09-03	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	2	5	0	11
1944-06-17	BEG @ PHS Gameday	5	5	5	1	1	5	0	9
1951-08-12	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1948-07-04	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-06-14	BEG @ NE Gameday	9.0	5	6	4	3	10	1
1945-09-04	NYC @ BEG Gameday	6.1	8	6	5	3	6	0
1937-05-15	BEG @ TIC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-15	BEG @ TIC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-05-16	TIC @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1969 (BBWAA)

3× Most Valuable Player11× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.