Lefty Grove : American original

Author(s)

• Kaplan, Jim

Bibliographic Information

Lefty Grove : American original

Jim Kaplan

Society for American Baseball Research, c2000

Other Title

Lefty Grove, American original

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Lefty 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. Jim Kaplan is a former writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of numerous books, including "Pine-tarred" and "Feathered: A Year on the Baseball Beat".

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• NCID: BA48442577
• ISBN:
  • 0910137803
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cleveland, Ohio
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 314 p.
• Size: 22 cm