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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: packs
93 years old. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Preach was a really nice, soft-spoken man when I met him. Roe was the local hero of West Plains, Missouri. West Plains epitomizes a typical southern county seat, with all main roads leading to the centralized courthouse. Mainly religious and country stations on the radio, genteel townsfolk, clean and sober. As of 1999, there was a breakfast place where you could get two eggs, toast and hash browns for 35 cents! Can't say that I've ever found a better deal in my life! |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Fred Y
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Bob
More sad news as Herb Score also passed away today. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: packs
Ah very sad. Who knows what Herb could have been. Two very nice guys from all accounts I've heard. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
I never met Herb, but he was always spoken of very highly by his teammates that I did know any time his name came up in conversation. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
very good signers through the mail........unlike the schmucks of today..........RIP....... |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Joe Hunter
Preacher was from my home town of West Plains, Missouri. When I was a kid, I remember my mother taking me to his grocery store on what is now Preacher Roe Blvd. He was a very nice and unassuming gentleman. The store was nothing special, just your average small town mom and pop operation in the early 1960's. Interestingly, West Plains is also the home town of former Pirate centerfielder Bill Virdon, PGA golfer Stan Utley, and country singer Porter Wagner. Amazing how a town of that size would produce so many famous people. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Joe, |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I'll never forget the 1951 season when "Ole Preach" won 22 and lost only 3 games....for an .880 pct. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Bob
the Preacher was traded by the Pirates to the Dodgers (along with Billy Cox and Gene Mauch) for Vic Lombardi, Hal Gregg and Dixie Walker in order to dump some of the racists then playing with Jackie Robinson? Apparently Dixie Walker fits the category well. I'm not at all sure about the other two. If I could find "The Boys of Summer" in the wreckage around me I'd answer my own question, but it's disappeared again. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
...and how great was it that the Bums got such a fine pitcher and the best defensive pre-Brooks third sacker in that deal? You don't understand what I would give to have been alive to see all of them at Ebbets (okay, I suppose you do !) |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Bob Manning
Jodi: |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Bob
I'll never forget the 1951 season when "Ole Preach" won 22 and lost only 3 games....for an .880 pct. |
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RIP Preacher Roe
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Bob, |
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