# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-face
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:18:10.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-face"
name: "Roy Face"
slug: "roy-face"
description: "ElRoy Leon Face, nicknamed \"The Baron of the Bullpen\", was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1953 to 1969, almost entirely for the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he made the forkball pitch famous. A pioneer of modern relief pitching in the archetype of what came to be known as the closer, he was the standard for National League relievers at the time of his retirement and set numerous records along the way."
tagline: "American baseball player (1928–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_Face_1959.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-02-20"
deathDate: "2026-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.87
  momentum:             7.81554660432711
  historical:           6.401841333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E4%BC%8A%C2%B7%E8%B2%BB%E6%96%AF"
    title: "羅伊·費斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EC%9D%B4_%ED%8E%98%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "로이 페이스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "روي فيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "روى فيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Face"
    title: "Roy Face"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Face"
    title: "Roy Face"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ロイ・フェイス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7372792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump