Jean-Pierre Roy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Pierre Roy

Canadian baseball player

Date of Birth: 26-Jun-1920

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 01-Nov-2014

Profession: television presenter, radio personality, sports commentator, baseball player

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jean-Pierre Roy (June 26, 1920 – November 1, 2014) was a Canadian pitcher in Major League Baseball.
He pitched in three games during the 1946 season for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec. While with the minor league Montreal Royals, Roy played with Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play in the major leagues.
Roy retained a friendship with Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson. 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 Montreal Expos 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 Pompano Beach, Florida winter home in the United States, at the age of 94.



Description	Canadian photographer and photojournalist
Date of birth/death	17 July 1912	12 January 1968
Location of birth/death	Montreal	Montreal
Work period	1932-1960
Work location	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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