Editing Roy Campanella (section)

==Legacy==
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|Image  = LAret39.PNG
|Name   = Roy Campanella
|Number = 39
|Team   = Los Angeles Dodgers
|Year   = 1972
|}}
In July<!-- 28, Monday --> 1969, Campanella was [[1969 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|inducted]] into the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[Cooperstown, New York|Cooperstown]],<ref name=schnof>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Lz1HAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q-kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=429%2C5948381 |work=Schenectady Gazette |location=(New York) |agency=Associated Press |title=Baseball enshrines 4 at Cooperstown |date=July 29, 1969 |page=20}}</ref><!-- https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VspRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3777%2C4058941 --> the second player of black heritage so honored, after [[Jackie Robinson]]. The same year, he received the [[Bronze Medallion (New York City award)|Bronze Medallion]] from the City of [[New York City|New York]].

Campanella was elected to the [[Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Profesional de México|Mexican Professional Baseball Hall Of Fame]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.salondelafamadelbeisbolmexicano.com/inmortales-39-71 |publisher=Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Profesional de México |title=Inmortales |language=es}}</ref> On June 4, 1972, the Dodgers retired Campanella's uniform number 39 alongside [[Jackie Robinson]]'s number 42 and [[Sandy Koufax]]'s number 32.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dodgers Retired Numbers|website=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]]|url=https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/history/retired-numbers}}</ref>

In 1999, Campanella ranked number 50 on ''[[The Sporting News]]''' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players,<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players|magazine=[[The Sporting News]]|date=April 26, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050416222917/http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-50.html |archive-date=April 16, 2005 |url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-50.html}}</ref> and was a nominee for the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]]. In 2020, ''[[The Athletic]]'' ranked Campanella at number 94 on its "Baseball 100" list, complied by sportswriter [[Joe Posnanski]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Posnanski |first1=Joe |title=The Baseball 100: No. 94, Roy Campanella |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1424245/2019/12/24/the-baseball-100-no-94-roy-campanella/ |magazine=[[The Athletic]] |date=December 24, 2019}}</ref>

Campanella was featured on a United States [[postage stamp]] in 2006.The stamp is one of a block of four honoring baseball sluggers, the others being [[Mickey Mantle]], [[Hank Greenberg]], and [[Mel Ott]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2005/sr05_054.htm |title=The 2006 Commemorative Stamp Program|work=United States Postal Service|access-date=January 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101018040857/http://www.usps.com/communications/news/stamps/2005/sr05_054.htm |archive-date=October 18, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> 

In September 2006, the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] announced the creation of the [[Roy Campanella Award]]. The club's players and coaches vote on it annually, and is given to the Dodger who best exemplifies "Campy's" spirit and leadership. Shortstop [[Rafael Furcal]] was named the inaugural winner of the award.

Campanella is mentioned in the lyrics of multiple songs, including "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball?", written and recorded by Buddy Johnson in 1949 (and covered by Count Basie and his Orchestra that same year), "[[We Didn't Start the Fire]]" by [[Billy Joel]], and in the refrain of "[[Talkin' Baseball]]" by [[Terry Cashman]].

Roy Campanella Park, a recreation center operated by the [[Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation]] in unincorporated [[West Rancho Dominguez, California]], is named after him.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-16 |title=Los Angeles County - Parks & Recreation |url=https://parks.lacounty.gov/roy-campanella-park/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=Los Angeles County - Parks & Recreation |language=en-US}}</ref>