Leroy Matlock
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| name = Leroy Matlock
| image = Leroy Matlock.jpg
| position = Pitcher
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|3|12|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Moberly, Missouri, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|2|6|1907|3|12|mf=y}}
| death_place = St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
| bats = Left
| throws = Left
| debutleague = Negro league baseball
| debutdate =
| debutyear = 1929
| debutteam = St. Louis Stars
| finaldate =
| finalyear = 1942
| finalteam = Mexico City Diablos Rojos
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| teams =
- St. Louis Stars (1929–1931)
- Homestead Grays (1932)
- Washington Pilots (1932)
- Pittsburgh Crawfords (1933–1938)
- Mexico City Diablos Rojos (1940–1942)
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Leroy Matlock (March 12, 1907 – February 6, 1968) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played from 1929 to 1938 with several teams. He was selected to the 1935 and the 1936 East-West All-Star Game. Matlock was considered one of the top left handed pitchers of the 1930s.{{Cite book |last=Riley |first=James A. |
title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalency00rile |url-access=registration |place=New York |publisher=Carroll & Graf |year=1994 |isbn=0-7867-0959-6 }}
At age 45, Matlock received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever.[http://johndonaldson.bravehost.com/a.html "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"]
He is listed as buried in the Elmhurst Cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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External links
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{{Baseballstats|br=m/matlole01}} and [https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=matloc000ler Baseball-Reference Black Baseball and Mexican League stats] and [https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=matlo01ler Seamheads]
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