Roger Vernon Freed (June 2, 1946 – January 9, 1996) was a Major League Baseball outfielder and pinch hitter. He played all or part of eight seasons between 1970 and 1979 for five different major league teams.
Famous quotes containing the words roger and/or freed:
“Draw round beloved and bitter men,
Draw round and raise a shout;
The ghost of Roger Casement
Is beating on the door.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I have a dream: in my dream ... Aretha Franklin, in her fabulous black-lipstick “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” outfit, leaps from her seat at Maxim’s and, shouting “Think!,” blasts Lacan, Derrida and Foucault like dishrags against the wall, then leads thousands of freed academic white slaves in a victory parade down the Champs-Elysées.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)