About Roger Slagle
Born 1953. Roger Slagle is an American baseball player.
Roger Lee Slagle (born November 4, 1953) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. He played a single MLB game for the New York Yankees. He was drafted by the Yankees in the first round (19th pick) of the secondary phase of the 1976 amateur draft.
Slagle grew up in Larned, Kansas and attended a high school too small to field a baseball team. He instead played PONY League Baseball and, while attending Hutchinson Community College, American Legion Baseball. After a year at Hutchinson, he transferred to Kansas where he played for the Kansas Jayhawks baseball team for two years. He sat out one season due to an arm injury.
Slagle pitched two perfect innings of relief for the Yankees in 1979, his only Major League appearance. He was removed from the roster shortly thereafter to make room for pitcher Rick Anderson. , he was teaching and coaching high school baseball in Frontenac, Kansas.
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Who is Roger Slagle?
American baseball player
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Roger Slagle was born on 4 November 1953 in Wichita.
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Roger Slagle is a baseball player.
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Roger Slagle is American.
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