Lefty Grove
Pitcher, Baseball Player
1900 – 1975
Who was Lefty Grove?
Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was a professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, winning 300 games in his 17-year MLB career. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.
One of the greatest left-handed pitchers in major league history, Grove led the American League in wins in four separate seasons, in strikeouts seven years in a row, and had the league's lowest earned run average a record nine times. Over the course of the three years from 1929 to 1931 he twice won the pitcher's Triple Crown, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, while amassing a 79-15 record as the ace for the Athletics' dynasty teams.
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- Born
- Mar 6, 1900
Lonaconing - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Baltimore
- Lonaconing
- Died
- May 22, 1975
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on July 23, 2013
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