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Lefty Grove may have been baseball’s greatest all-time pitcher. He was certainly its most dominant. No one matched his nine ERA titles, and his .680 winning percentage (300-141) is the highest among 300 game winners (eighth best overall). After winning 111 games in a minor-league career that delayed his major-league debut until he was 25, Grove led […]

Something had to give as the league-leading Philadelphia Athletics and their ace, Lefty Grove, took on undefeated hurler George Uhle and the Detroit Tigers. The streaking Athletics had won five games in a row and 16 of 17, to open up a 5½-game lead atop the American League standings, with a 30-9 record. Grove was […]

Lefty Grove was on the verge of reaching a major career milestone in July 1941. Grove was attempting to become the 12th pitcher in baseball history, and sixth hurler in the twentieth century, to record 300 career wins. The 41-year-old living legend, pitching in his 17th season, is considered by historians1 and was considered by […]