PASADENA : Awards Honor Evans, Tarkanian and Bradford

Three Pasadena natives were honored last month for their achievements in college and professional sports at the first Roy Campanella Humanitarian Awards at the Pasadena Hilton.

Sponsored by the city and the Alkebu-lan Cultural Center, the awards ceremony recognized the community concern and commitment to excellence demonstrated by Campanella.

Campanella, the first African American catcher in major league baseball, played for the Brooklyn Dodgers until 1958, when he was paralyzed in an automobile accident.

This year’s award recipients were former University of Nevada Las Vegas basketball Coach Jerry Tarkanian; baseball great Darrell Evans and Charles Bradford, a Pasadena activist and former NAACP Man of the Year.