Leroy "Colonel" Beecher (May 10, 1884 – October 11, 1952) was a

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. He played for the

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."Roy Beecher Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-08.

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1884 births 1952 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers New York Giants (baseball) players Baseball players from Ohio Houghton Giants players Springfield Senators players Newark Indians players Rochester Bronchos players Topeka Jayhawks players People from Swanton, Ohio 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub