Roy Largent
SCOUTING THROUGH EYES OF WOMAN
ROY LARGENT FINDS WIFE VALUABLE AID IN BUYING PLAYERS
St. Louis newspaper, November 2, 1933?.
McKinney, Tex. – The eyes and judgment of a man; the cleverness and intuition of a woman! There’s a combination for you when is comes to tracking down young ball players who may be of future use as major leaguers. How come? Well, a unique arrangement that functions ...as the Largent & Largent Scouting Company, if such a trade name actually exists, but it appreciable in view of the fact that Roy Largent, scout for the Chicago White Sox, who lives here, never goes on a player hunting expedition without Mrs. Largent nor does he put the okeh on a recruit until the “missus” collaborates in the decision....
Mrs. Largent, who is always seen in the company of her husband when he is on a scouting mission, shrinks from publicity in connection with the help she gives Roy. She is an accomplished woman, with many other connections besides her baseball work. Briefly, she is a housewife who has found time to rear three orphan children as her own. She has been interested in social, civic and church work in McKinney for wt years. She is past president of her club, the oldest in the city; past president of the __y Federation; sponsor of the city’s free library; a talented musician, playing the pipe organ, piano and violin; Sunday school teacher and organist at her church.
Largent, who served as secretary of the local Elks for 21 years and who has been scouting actively for the White Sox since 1925, gives much of the credit for success to the judgment of his wife. They have been married for 29 years, but time has only made them better pals, as it were. “I don’t know what I’d do without her, “ said Roy, who does not hear well, the other day. “She not only helps me with her eyes, but she might be called my years. There isn’t a telephone call that comes to me, or one that I am required to make, that she does not personally handle. And she conducts all of that kind of business for me. Few, perhaps, knew it but there has been hardly a player I have recommended to the Chicago club who has not privately carried the stamp of approval of the missus.”....
ROY LARGENT FINDS WIFE VALUABLE AID IN BUYING PLAYERS
St. Louis newspaper, November 2, 1933?.
McKinney, Tex. – The eyes and judgment of a man; the cleverness and intuition of a woman! There’s a combination for you when is comes to tracking down young ball players who may be of future use as major leaguers. How come? Well, a unique arrangement that functions ...as the Largent & Largent Scouting Company, if such a trade name actually exists, but it appreciable in view of the fact that Roy Largent, scout for the Chicago White Sox, who lives here, never goes on a player hunting expedition without Mrs. Largent nor does he put the okeh on a recruit until the “missus” collaborates in the decision....
Mrs. Largent, who is always seen in the company of her husband when he is on a scouting mission, shrinks from publicity in connection with the help she gives Roy. She is an accomplished woman, with many other connections besides her baseball work. Briefly, she is a housewife who has found time to rear three orphan children as her own. She has been interested in social, civic and church work in McKinney for wt years. She is past president of her club, the oldest in the city; past president of the __y Federation; sponsor of the city’s free library; a talented musician, playing the pipe organ, piano and violin; Sunday school teacher and organist at her church.
Largent, who served as secretary of the local Elks for 21 years and who has been scouting actively for the White Sox since 1925, gives much of the credit for success to the judgment of his wife. They have been married for 29 years, but time has only made them better pals, as it were. “I don’t know what I’d do without her, “ said Roy, who does not hear well, the other day. “She not only helps me with her eyes, but she might be called my years. There isn’t a telephone call that comes to me, or one that I am required to make, that she does not personally handle. And she conducts all of that kind of business for me. Few, perhaps, knew it but there has been hardly a player I have recommended to the Chicago club who has not privately carried the stamp of approval of the missus.”....