Kaplan, Jim
Description
Lefty Grove may have been baseballs best pitcher. He was certainly one of its most interesting. A three-hundred-game winner during 192541, he captur
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ed 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.
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Genres
Biography & Memoir
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BASEBALL PLAYERS
BASEBALL_BIOGRAPHY
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Publishing Info
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Month-Year
Feb, 2000
ISBN
ISBN-13: 9780910137805
ISBN-10: 0910137803
Language
English
No. of Pages
315
Format
Paperback
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