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American baseball player
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Male
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Birth:
6 December 1913(Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, U.S.A.)
Death:
3 February 1998(Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, U.S.A.)
The details
Biography
Roy Horace Welmaker (December 6, 1913 – February 3, 1998) was an American professional baseball pitcher star of Negro Leagues. He played from 1932 to 1953. Notably, in 1946 as pitcher of Sabios de Vargas Roy Welmaker hurled in 25 of the 30 games of LVBP inaugural season, including 25 starts, and posted a 12-8 record with 139 strikeouts and a 2.68 earned run average (ERA) in 181⅔ innings of work. Welmaker led the league in victories, strikeouts and ERA to easily win the Triple crown.