Baseball

Eisenhower High School

Class of 1963

Inducted 8/25/2017

Roe Skidmore played on the 1961 Eisenhower state championship baseball team, and was also a standout for the Panthers' basketball team. He went on to play both sports at Millikin before getting signed by the Atlanta Braves. He would go on to play 10 minor league seasons for several organizations, including the Cubs, whose Class A team was the Decatur Commodores at that time. Skidmore played two seasons for the Commodores and was later called up for both the 1969 and 1970 MLB season for the Cubs. In 1970, he got his one and only Major League Baseball at-bat, lining a single off the Cardinals' Jerry Reuss.

H&R Sept. 14, 2022