Preacher Roe Quotes

"It's kind of remarkable that a guy with this cunning and all was able to do the kinds of things that Preacher was, he was a great pitcher and a great competitor." Jackie Robinson "Them two fellas (Preacher Roe and Eddie Lopat) certainly make baseball look like a simple game, don't they? Makes you wonder. You pay all that big money to great big fellas with a lot of muscles and straight stomachs who go up there an' start swinging, and they give 'em a little o' this and a little o' that and swindle 'em." Yankee manager Casey Stengel "When I went forth to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1952, the most cerebral Brooklyn pitcher was a tall, skinny hillbilly named Elwin Charles 'Preacher' Roe." Roger Kahn

The only homerun Preacher ever made was during the 1953 season.

"You don't have to throw it . . . just make 'em think you're going to throw it."

Quotes by Preacher Roe - "One day in a tough game I was passing Lonnie Warneke and he said, 'Preach, I may have my superiors on the bases, but when it comes to balls and strikes, I'm second to no man.' And I commenced thinking careful and when I was done I told him, 'Horse@#, Lon.'" "If it's a good 'un it drops like a dead duck just as it crosses the plate." "Every pitch, perfect or not, is a potential home run." "I've got three pitches, my change, my change off my change, and my change off my change off my change."