Robert Roe Skidmore is an American former professional baseball player and one of the few players in Major League Baseball history with a perfect career batting average of 1.000. An outfielder and first baseman, he had a ten-year, 1,289-game career in minor league baseball, but made only one Major League appearance as a pinch hitter for the 1970 Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 188 pounds. Skidmore had split the 1970 season between the Cubs' two top farm clubs, the San Antonio Missions and the Tacoma Cubs, before his late-season trial in the Majors. On September 17, 1970, during a 9?2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, he pinch hit for Joe Decker in the seventh inning and singled off Cardinal left-hander Jerry Reuss. He was then retired on a force out. It was Skidmore's only Major League at bat. Roe attended Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois. 

October 30th, 1945 in Decatur (Age 79)