Lefty Grove
Dominant left-handed pitcher with nine ERA titles and 300 wins.
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He played for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, winning 300 games in his 17-year MLB career.[1]
Life and work
He did not play organized baseball until age 19 and made his professional debut in 1920 with the Martinsburg Mountaineers.[2] Dunn kept Grove in the minor leagues through 1924, then sold his rights to Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics for $100,600 in 1925.[3] From 1929 to 1931, he posted a 79–15 record and led the Athletics to three straight AL championships.[1] In 1921, Grove married Ethel Gardner, his childhood sweetheart; the couple had two children, Robert and Doris.[4]
What the cited sources add
A 2001 Baltimore Sun article states Grove was universally considered among the best southpaws ever to pitch professionally.[5] The Sun article notes that after Grove's trophy was granted to the town around 1960, nobody thought it would ever be a big draw.[5] The Hardball Times account of baseball's 1969 centennial notes that, despite strong public support for Sandy Koufax, the writers selected Lefty Grove as the left-handed pitcher for the all-time team.[6][7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Lefty Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Baseball Hall of Fame (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Lefty Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Russo, pp. 145-46 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Lefty Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Russo, p. 146 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Lefty Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Broadwater, "Lefty Grove and the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics", McFarland, 2014, p. 111, 165 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Greene, "Grove's trophy back in spotlight", Baltimore Sun, January 21, 2001. facts only, no text reused. baltimoresun.com
- Armour, "Celebrating Baseball's Centennial", The Hardball Times, May 20, 2019. facts only, no text reused. tht.fangraphs.com
- Wikipedia, "Lefty Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Armour, "Celebrating Baseball's Centennial", The Hardball Times, May 20, 2019; Baseball's 100 Greatest Players by The Sporting News (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: Lefty Grove (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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