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Roe, Preacher, 1916-2008

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Personal name headingRoe, Preacher, 1916-2008
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Variant(s)Roe, Elwin C. (Elwin Charles), 1916-2008
Found inRoe, Preacher. When baseball was still a game, c2005: t.p. (Preacher Roe) p. [1] (birth name, Elwin C. Roe; b. Ash Flat, AK, Feb. 26, 1916)
New York times WWW site, Nov. 12, 2008 (in obituary published Nov. 10: Preacher Roe; b. Elwin Charles Roe, Feb. 26, 1916, Ash Flat, Ark.; d. Sunday [Nov. 9, 2008], West Plains, Mo., aged 92; folksy left-hander from the Ozarks who became a star pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, featuring superb control and a spitball he belatedly confessed to throwing)