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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 16 > ‘Boy of Summer’ Preacher Roe rode spitball to greatness

‘Boy of Summer’ Preacher Roe rode spitball to greatness

By Richard Goldstein / The Bulletin
November 16, 2008

Preacher Roe, the 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, died Nov. 9 in West Plains, Mo. He was 92.

The cause was complications of colon cancer, his son Thomas said.

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