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Roger Connor
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Roger Connor is one of the former baseball players who hold the honor of being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Roger was born on July 1, 1857 in Waterbury at Connecticut. Nicknamed as Dear Old Roger, he listed a height of 6-03 feet with a weight of 220 pounds. He played his first professional game at the age of 22 years and last game on May 18, 1897. He died on January 4, 1931 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Roger spent most of his professional career stint with the Troy Trojans baseball team. He was one of the greatest sluggers of the 19th century with 138 career home runs that stood as the record until Babe Ruth exceeded it in the lively ball era. Although Connor could drive the ball for prodigious distances, his speed and line drives added up to triples and became fifth ranked on the all time list with 233 mark. In 1883, he hit a magnificent shot in his first game with the Giants. He favored pitches down by his knees and would put his 220 pounds of farm-hardened muscle behind his hits.
Roger Connor was a man with a tremendous reach, a good pair of hands and was exceedingly good on pickups, digging the ball out of the dirt. He never had any equal as a fielder, base runner and batsman, combined with heady work of a quality.
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