The Philadelphia Native eventually left school at Simon Gratz to play for the Baltimore Elite Giants.
Pioneering Hoop statistician Harvey Pollack was likely one of Roy Campanella's classmates at Simon Gratz.
Today in 1944: Joe Nuxhall‚ only 15 years‚ 10 months old‚ pitches two-thirds of an inning in the Cincinnati Reds’ 18-0 loss to St. Louis. Now we have a younger MLBer: Roy Campanella, with the Washington (DC) Elite Giants on June 22, 1937, against the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
