Roger Lee Slagle (born November 4, 1953) is a retired

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. He played a single MLB game for the

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. He was drafted by the Yankees in the first round (19th pick) of the secondary phase of the 1976 amateur draft. Slagle grew up in

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and attended a high school too small to field a baseball team. He instead played

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and, while attending

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, American Legion Baseball. After a year at Hutchinson, he transferred to Kansas where he played for the

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team for two years. He sat out one season due to an arm injury. Slagle pitched two perfect innings of relief for the Yankees in 1979, his only Major League appearance. He was removed from the roster shortly thereafter to make room for pitcher Rick Anderson. Slagle played his last professional season with the Yankees' Double-A

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in 1982. His playing career ended after he tore his rotator cuff for a second time. , he was teaching and coaching high school baseball in

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