Roy Meeker

{{Short description|American baseball player (1900–1929)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Roy Meeker

|position=Pitcher

|image=Meeker, Pitcher Phila., 192(4) LOC npcc.10873.jpg

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1900|9|15}}

|birth_place=Lead Mine, Missouri, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1929|3|25|1900|9|15}}

|death_place=Orlando, Florida, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 22

|debutyear=1923

|debutteam= Philadelphia Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 25

|finalyear=1926

|finalteam= Cincinnati Reds

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=8–14

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.73

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=54

|teams=

• Philadelphia Athletics ({{baseball year|1923}}–{{baseball year|1924}})
• Cincinnati Reds ({{baseball year|1926}})

}}

Charles Roy Meeker (September 15, 1900 – March 25, 1929) was a professional baseball player. He was a left-handed pitcher over parts of three seasons (1923–24, 1926) with the Philadelphia Athletics and Cincinnati Reds. For his career, he compiled an 8–14 record, with a 4.73 earned run average, and 54 strikeouts in 192 innings pitched.{{Baseballstats|br=m/meekero01}}

He was born in Lead Mine, Missouri, and at the time of his death was living in Kansas City.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19290326&id=KpRRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x2gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4922,4972910&hl=en | title=Roy Meeker, Red hurler, dies suddenly in camp | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=Mar 26, 1929 | accessdate=25 September 2016 | pages=18}} Meeker died of a heart attack in Orlando, Florida at the age of 28 while taking part in the Reds' spring training.