Roe Skidmore

October 30, 1945 (age 29)

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An outfielder and first baseman, he had a ten-year, 1,289-game career (1966–1975) in minor league baseball, but made only one Major League appearance as a pinch hitter for the 1970 Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches (191 m) tall and weighed 188 pounds (85 kg). Skidmore had split the 1970 season between the Cubs" two top farm clubs, the San Antonio Missions and the Tacoma Cubs, before his late-season trial in the Majors. On September 17, 1970, during a 9–2 loss to the Saint Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, he pinch hit for Joe Decker in the seventh inning and singled off Cardinal left-hander Jerry Reuss. He was then retired on a force out. lieutenant was Skidmore"s only Major League at battalion Roe attended Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois.

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An outfielder and first baseman, he had a ten-year, 1,289-game career (1966–1975) in minor league baseball, but made only one Major League appearance as a pinch hitter for the 1970 Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches (191 m) tall and weighed 188 pounds (85 kg). Skidmore had split the 1970 season between the Cubs" two top farm clubs, the San Antonio Missions and the Tacoma Cubs, before his late-season trial in the Majors.

On September 17, 1970, during a 9–2 loss to the Saint Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, he pinch hit for Joe Decker in the seventh inning and singled off Cardinal left-hander Jerry Reuss.

He was then retired on a force out. lieutenant was Skidmore"s only Major League at battalion

Roe attended Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois.

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