Jean-Pierre Roy (June 26, 1920 – November 1, 2014) was a Canadian

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. He pitched in three games during the season for the

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. He was born in

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. While with the minor league

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, Roy played with

Jackie Robinson Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first Black American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the Baseball color line, ...

, the first African-American to play in the major leagues. Roy retained a friendship with Robinson's widow,

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. The major highlight of his Montreal years was going 25–11 with a 3.72 ERA in the 1945 season and he compiled an overall 45–28 career record pitching with the Royals. Roy was later a television commentator for the

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from 1968 to 1984 and a public relations representative for the Expos. He was inducted into the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame in 1995, and the Quebec Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001. He died on November 1, 2014, at his

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, winter home in the United States, at the age of 94.Jean-Pierre Roy s'éteint à 94 ans

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