Lefty Grove

American Original

• Author(s): Jim Kaplan,
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Pages: 314
• ISBN_10: 0910137803
  ISBN_13: 9780910137805
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Sports , Sports & Recreation / General , Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General ,

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.