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BASEBALL QUOTES
Quotes by and about "Preacher" Roe
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Brief Overview of Elwin Roe's Major League Career
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After leading the National League in strikeouts in 1945, Roe had two bad years with the Pirates due to a concussion he received off season in 1946.
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He was subsequently traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948. Branch Rickey told Roe that he figured his luck was bound to change for the better and Rickey wanted Roe pitching for the Dodgers when that day came.
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His best seasons came with the Dodgers. Roe was selected to the All-Star team 4 years in a row as a Brooklyn Dodger. He pitched in 3 World Series and led the league with the best pitching average for 3 years wearing a Dodger uniform prior to his retirement.
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(Ed.'s Note: Years after his retirement, Roe admitted to
throwing the spitter during his career in the majors.)
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Quotes:
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"Baseball was good to me and I won’t say anything bad about it or anyone in it."
Preacher Roe
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"It's kind of remarkable that a guy with this cunning and all was able to do the kinds of things that Preacher was, he was a great pitcher and a great competitor."
Jackie Robinson
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"Them two fellas (Preacher Roe and Eddie Lopat) certainly make baseball look like a simple game, don't they? Makes you wonder. You pay all that big money to great big fellas with a lot of muscles and straight stomachs who go up there an' start swinging, and they give 'em a little o' this and a little o' that and swindle 'em."
Yankee manager Casey Stengel
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"When I went forth to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952, the most cerebral Brooklyn pitcher was a tall, skinny hillbilly named Elwin Charles 'Preacher' Roe."
Roger Kahn
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Quotes by Roe:
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"You don't have to throw it . . . just make 'em think you're going to throw it."
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"One day in a tough game I was passing Lonnie Warneke and he said, 'Preach, I may have my superiors on the bases, but when it comes to balls and strikes, I'm second to no man.' And I commenced thinking careful and when I was done I told him, 'Horse@#, Lon.'"
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"If it's a good 'un it drops like a dead duck just as it crosses the plate."
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"Every pitch, perfect or not, is a potential home run."
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"I've got three pitches, my change, my change off my change, and my change off my change off my change."
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