Jim “Mudcat” Grant turns 75 today.
In 2006, Grant published The Black Aces: Baseball’s Only African-America Twenty-Game Winners. (There’s another book about black aces, but that one pertains to fighter pilots during WW II.)
Also marking the day, Andre Thornton, who turns 61. The popular slugger who played for the Indians, Cubs, and Expos (briefly), co-authored Triumph Born of Tragedy, a 1983 account of his struggles as a Christian to overcome the car accident that took the lives of his wife and young daughter in 1977.
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