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Jean-Pierre Roy, who pitched in professional and minor-league baseball for a decade before becoming a play-by-play broadcaster and analyst for Montreal Expos games, has died. He was 94.

La Presse reported Saturday that Roy had prostate cancer, but died from reasons related to high blood pressure and his advanced age, according to his wife. He was living in Florida for about 20 years.

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Roy was born in Montreal on June 26, 1920. He was a pioneer of baseball in Quebec. His career in the minor leagues started in 1940 with the Trois-Rivières Renards of the provincial league, and took him to Mobile, Ala., Houston, Rochester, N.Y., Sacramento, Calif., between 1942 and 1944, when he joined the Montreal Royals, a double-A club associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 1945, he had his best season, with 25 wins and 11 losses in 41 starts. In 293 innings, he had a 3.72 earned-run average.

A year later, he was offered the chance to join the Dodgers. He played three games, including one as a starter, May 9 in Cincinnati. He pitched 6 1/3 innings and surrendered seven points with an ERA of 9.95.

His career ended in 1955, but he came back to the baseball world when the Expos were founded in 1969. He worked as a play-by-play broadcaster for games on the radio until 1973, and he was an analyst for Radio-Canada television with Guy Ferron and Raymond Lebrun until 1983.