:Roe Skidmore

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1945)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Roe Skidmore

|position=Pinch hitter

|image=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1945|10|30}}

|birth_place=Decatur, Illinois

|death_date=

|death_place=

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 17

|debutyear=1970

|debutteam=Chicago Cubs

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 17

|finalyear=1970

|finalteam=Chicago Cubs

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=1.000

|stat2label=At bats

|stat2value=1

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=1

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• Chicago Cubs (1970)}}Robert Roe Skidmore (born October 30, 1945) is an American former professional baseball player and one of the few players in Major League Baseball history with a perfect career batting average of 1.000.

An outfielder and first baseman, he had a ten-year, 1,289-game career (1966–1975) in minor league baseball,[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=skidmo001rob Minor league statistics] from Baseball Reference but made only one Major League appearance as a pinch hitter for the {{baseball year|1970}} Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, stood {{convert|6|ft|3|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|188|lb}}.

Skidmore had split the 1970 season between the Cubs' two top farm clubs, the San Antonio Missions and the Tacoma Cubs, before his late-season trial in the Majors. On September 17, 1970, during a 9–2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, he pinch hit for Joe Decker in the seventh inning and singled off Cardinal left-hander Jerry Reuss. He was then retired on a force out.[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1970/B09170CHN1970.htm 1970-9-17 box score from Retrosheet] It was Skidmore's only Major League at bat. He was traded along with Dave Lemonds and Pat Jacquez by the Cubs to the Chicago White Sox for Ossie Blanco and José Ortiz on November 30, 1970.[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/01/archives/center-fielders-are-exchanged-berry-joins-conigliaro-and-johnson-in.html "Center Fielders Are Exchanged," The New York Times, Tuesday, December 1, 1970.] Retrieved March 10, 2020

Roe attended Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois.