Major League Roe
Was shocked this morning at church at who Pastor Wayne invited up on stage with him.
Roe Skidmore.
You recognize that name?
Diehard fans of baseball MIGHT.
If you're not a diehard, you have no clue.
Roe is from Decatur and played for several professional baseball organizations.
It was fun to hear a little of his story today. He's a funny guy.
4 cool things about Roe:
-- he was born/raised in our church and still attends today
-- he had a dream as an 8 year old boy watching the Decatur Commodores to play professional baseball...... and he reached that dream
-- he is a great example of a family man
-- he is one of only a handful of major league players to have a career batting average of 1.000
The short story on his first hit:
When Skidmore stepped to the plate in the seventh inning for his first career at-bat, there were two outs and no runners on, and as luck would have it, he was facing a familiar foe. Cardinals starting pitcher Jerry Reuss would go on to win 220 games over 22 big league seasons, but at the time, he was a 21-year-old making his 19th major league start, and, more important, he was a pitcher Skidmore had faced in the minors.
Reuss hung a curveball and Skidmore smoked it into left field for a single, over the head of Joe Torre and, after a couple of bounces, into the glove of Lou Brock.
How cool is that!
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Out for now.......
Matt
