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Lefty Grove : American original / Jim Kaplan.
Van Pelt Library GV865.G76 K37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Jim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grove, Lefty, 1900-1975.
- Grove, Lefty.
- Pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography.
- Pitchers (Baseball).
- United States.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland, OH. : Society for American Baseball Research, 2000.
- Summary:
- Left Grove may have been baseball's best pitcher. He was certainly one of its most interesting. A three-hundred-game winner during 1925-41, he captured an unmatched nine ERA and five winning-percentage titles. While starring for the Philadelphia Athletics he was known for "a fastball and a mean disposition", qualities best exemplified in 1931, when he won thirty-one games and wrecked a clubhouse. Grove finished his career with the Boston Red Sox, where he injured his arm and reconstructed himself as a fabulous control artist.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0910137803
- OCLC:
- 43792550
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