Former Cub recalls his perfect batting career.
In my early days of watching baseball, I nurtured a passion for baseball statistics. Other than the multiplication table, it was the only area of math where I could claim a modicum of proficiency.
Roe Skidmore's batting average remains perfect to this day. His career consisted of one at-bat, and he made the most of it. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Thanks to the miracle of Facebook, I recently connected with Skidmore, who still lives in Decatur, the town where he was born and raised and where he played baseball at Millikin University and for the Decatur Commodores in the Giants minor league system.
And so, with self-effacing humor, he once again dug up the memory of that gloomy, rainy September afternoon, when the Cubs played their final game of the year at Wrigley Field. "I knew he had this big overhand curveball, and I'm thinking my motor skills aren't functioning all that well right now. I'm going to pray he throws me that big slow overhand curveball, so I can at least get the bat around.
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