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Lefty Grove
Lefty Grove
Pitcher
Born: March 6, 1900(1900-03-06)
Lonaconing, Maryland
Died: May 22, 1975 (aged 75)
Norwalk, Ohio
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
April 14, 1925
for the Philadelphia Athletics
Final game
September 28, 1941
for the Boston Red Sox
Career statistics
Win-Loss record     300-141
Earned run average     3. In Baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the Pitcher's mound toward the Catcher to begin each play with the goal of Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Lonaconing is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Norwalk is a city in Huron County, Ohio, United States. The population was 16238 at the 2000 census. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Champions World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Washington Senators (4-3 Negro League World Series: Hilldale The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Headline events of the year Joe Dimaggio hits in 56 consecutive games The Boston Red Sox are a Professional baseball team based in Boston Massachusetts, and are the reigning (2007 World Series Champions. A win is a Statistic in Major League Baseball credited to the Pitcher for the winning team who was in the game when his team last took the lead In Baseball statistics, earned run average ( ERA) is the Mean of Earned runs given up by a Pitcher per nine Innings pitched 06
Strikeouts     2,266
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Elected     1947
Vote     76. In Baseball or Softball, a strikeout or strike out (denoted by SO or K) occurs when a batter receives three strikes The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Champions World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Washington Senators (4-3 Negro League World Series: Hilldale Headline Event of the Year First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game. The Boston Red Sox are a Professional baseball team based in Boston Massachusetts, and are the reigning (2007 World Series Champions. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: St Louis Cardinals over Detroit Tigers (4-3 All-Star Game Headline events of the year Joe Dimaggio hits in 56 consecutive games The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic" is an annual Baseball game between players from the National League For other events named "World Series" see World Series (disambiguation. In the 1929 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Chicago Cubs in 5 games In the 1930 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the St The Most Valuable Player Award (commonly known as the MVP award is an annual award given to one outstanding player in each league of Major League Baseball. For other uses of this term see Triple crown In Baseball, the Triple Crown refers to A batter who (at season's end leads Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3 All-Star Game 4% (third ballot)

Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove (March 6, 1900 – May 22, 1975) was considered one of the greatest pitchers in Major League Baseball history. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1900 ( MCM) was an exceptional Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the Pitcher's mound toward the Catcher to begin each play with the goal of Born in Lonaconing, Maryland, Grove was a sandlot star in the Baltimore area during the 1910s. Lonaconing is a town in Allegany County, Maryland, United States located along the Georges Creek Valley. The 1910s decade ran from January 1 1910 through December 31 1919 His performance caught the eye of Jack Dunn, the owner of the minor league Baltimore Orioles, who also discovered Babe Ruth. For other people named John Dunn see here John Joseph Dunn ( October 6, 1872 - October 22, 1928) was an American Part of the History of baseball series Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of Professional baseball leagues in North The city of Baltimore Maryland has been home to two Minor league baseball teams called the Baltimore Orioles. George Herman Ruth Jr (February 6 1895 &ndash August 16 1948 also popularly known as " Babe " " The Bambino " and " The Sultan of

Grove joined the Orioles in 1920 and embarked on an epic minor league career which saw him regarded by some as one of the best pitchers in baseball, even before he ever threw a pitch in the majors. Champions World Series: Cleveland Indians over Brooklyn Robins (5-2 Awards and honors Breaking into the team's pitching rotation at midseason, Grove posted a 12-2 record. Over the next four seasons, he posted marks of 25-10, 18-8, 27-10 and 27-6, leading the International League in strikeouts every season. The International League ( IL) is a Minor league baseball league which operates in the eastern United States.

Grove remained in the minor leagues through 1924 because Dunn, who ran an independent operation with no major-league affiliation, refused several offers from the majors to acquire him. Champions World Series: Washington Senators over New York Giants (4-3 First Negro League World Series: Kansas Finally, early in 1925, Dunn agreed to sell Grove's rights to the Philadelphia Athletics for $100,500, the highest amount ever paid for a player at the time. Champions World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates over Washington Senators (4-3 Negro League World Series: Hilldale The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.

He battled injuries as a rookie and posted only a 10-13 record, despite leading the league in strikeouts. Grove then settled down in 1926 and won the first of a record nine earned run average (ERA) titles with a mark of 2. Champions World Series: St Louis Cardinals over New York Yankees (4-3 Negro League World Series: Chicago In Baseball statistics, earned run average ( ERA) is the Mean of Earned runs given up by a Pitcher per nine Innings pitched 51. In 1927, Grove won 20 games for the first time and a year later, he led the league in wins with 24. Headline Event of the Year Murderers' Row lead New York Yankees to World Series victory

In 1928, Grove twice struck out the side on 9 pitches. Champions World Series: New York Yankees over St Louis Cardinals Awards and honors League In Major League Baseball, 38 pitchers have thrown a nine-pitch three-strikeout half-inning literally throwing nothing but strikes a total of 41 times On August 23, he did it in the second inning of a 3-1 win over the Cleveland Indians to become the third American League pitcher and seventh pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat. Events 79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring on the feast day of Vulcan the Roman god of fire On September 27, he did it in the seventh inning of a 5-3 win over the Chicago White Sox, becoming the first pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat twice in a career; since then, only Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan, both Hall of Famers, have joined him. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Sanford Koufax (ˈkoʊfæks (born Sanford Braun, on December 30, 1935) is an American Left-handed former Pitcher in Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr (born January 31, 1947 in Refugio, Texas) is a retired American Right-handed Pitcher in Grove, however, remains the only pitcher to ever do it twice in the same season, just one month and four days apart.

The Athletics won the pennant in three successive seasons (1929 to 1931), as well as two straight World Championships 1929 and 1930. Champions World Series: Philadelphia Athletics over Chicago Cubs (4-1 Awards and honors Champions World Series: St Louis Cardinals over Philadelphia Athletics (4-3 Awards and honors In the 1929 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Chicago Cubs in 5 games In the 1930 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the St During the Athletics championship run, Grove led the way as the league's top pitcher, posting records of 20-6, 28-5 and 31-4 in those years, the last of which being his best. Grove led the league in wins, ERA (2. 06), strikeouts (175), winning percentage, complete games and shutouts. He was also chosen as league MVP in 1931, making him one of only a handful of pitchers to achieve this honor. The Most Valuable Player Award (commonly known as the MVP award is an annual award given to one outstanding player in each league of Major League Baseball. Champions World Series: St Louis Cardinals over Philadelphia Athletics (4-3 Awards and honors His MVP Award is the only one not housed in Cooperstown, instead being housed at the Georges Creek Library in Lonaconing. The Most Valuable Player Award (commonly known as the MVP award is an annual award given to one outstanding player in each league of Major League Baseball.

The Athletics continued to contend for the next two seasons, but finished second to the New York Yankees in 1932 and third behind the Washington Senators and Yankees in 1933. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City, New York. Following the 1933 season, team owner Connie Mack sold Grove to the Boston Red Sox. Headline Event of the Year First Negro League Baseball All-Star Game. Cornelius Alexander Mack ( December 22, 1862  – February 8, 1956) born Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy, was an American The Boston Red Sox are a Professional baseball team based in Boston Massachusetts, and are the reigning (2007 World Series Champions.

At the time, the Red Sox were a bad team, and Grove didn't help much his first year, when an arm injury held him to an 8-8 record. However in 1935, Grove returned to form with a 20-12 record and a league-leading 2. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4-2 All-Star Game, 70 ERA. Grove won his eighth ERA title a year later, and also led the league in that category and winning percentage in 1938. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4-0 All-Star Game Grove did not win as many games in Boston as he did in Philadelphia, as managers protected his arm as he aged. Nevertheless, Grove continued to post outstanding records, including 14-4 in 1938 and 15-4 in 1939. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4-0 All-Star Game Headline Event of the Year On May 17, 1939, Princeton University and Columbia University played the first televised baseball

Grove was honored by a postage stamp.

Grove retired in 1941 with a career record of 300-141. Headline events of the year Joe Dimaggio hits in 56 consecutive games His . 680 lifetime winning percentage is still eighth all-time; however, none of the seven men ahead of him won more than 236 games. His lifetime ERA of 3. 06, when normalized to relate to overall league ERA and adjusted for the parks in which Grove played during his career, is second only to the still-active Pedro Martínez), at 48 percent better than average. Adjusted ERA+, often simply abbreviated to ERA+ is a statistic in Baseball. Pedro Jaime Martínez (born October 25 1971 in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball Starting pitcher for the

Grove was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. The 1947 election to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame again followed a major revision of the methods used one year earlier He died in Norwalk, Ohio and was interred in the Frostburg Memorial Cemetery in Frostburg, Maryland. Norwalk is a city in Huron County, Ohio, United States. The population was 16238 at the 2000 census. For the NSA computer see FROSTBURG. Frostburg is a city in Allegany County, Maryland

In 1999, Grove ranked number 23 on The Sporting News list of Baseball's Greatest Players. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Atlanta Braves (4-0 Mariano Rivera, MVP In 1998 The Sporting News compiled a list of Baseball's Greatest Players He was the second highest-ranked left-handed pitcher, after Warren Spahn. Warren Edward Spahn ( April 23, 1921 &ndash November 24, 2003) was an American left-handed Pitcher in Major League That same year, Grove was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 1999 MasterCard sponsored the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

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The Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame was instituted in 1995 to recognize the careers of former Boston Red Sox players In Major League Baseball, the 300 win club is a term applied to the group of Pitchers who have won 300 or more games in their careers This is a list of the top 500 Major League Baseball winningest pitchers. Major League Baseball recognizes Earned run average champions in the American League and National League each season For other uses of this term see Triple crown In Baseball, the Triple Crown refers to A batter who (at season's end leads Major League Baseball recognizes saves champions in the American League and National League each season Major League Baseball recognizes Strikeout champions in the American League and National League each season The following is a list of Major League Baseball wins champions. In Major League Baseball, 38 pitchers have thrown a nine-pitch three-strikeout half-inning literally throwing nothing but strikes a total of 41 times In Baseball, a Strikeout occurs when the batter receives three strikes during his time At bat. At the end of each Major League Baseball season the league leaders of various statistical categories are announced
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