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Lefty Grove

This date in baseball books: July 25, 2025

July 25, 2025

From the pages of On This Day in Baseball History: A Day-by-Day Account of Baseball’s Most Indelible Moments, by the Baseball Time Machine… 1941: Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th game in a  10-6 victory over the visiting Cleveland Indians. It would be his final win in his final season. Lefty […]

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Literary birthday greetings: Pops, a Lefty, and the face of wartime baseball

March 6, 2011

Willie Stargell, the heart and soul of the Pittsburgh Prates “family,” was born this date in 1940. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988 Willie Stargell: An Autobiography, by Stargell with Bird, 1984 Out of left field: Willie Stargell and the Pittsburgh Pirates (A Prairie House book), Adelman, 1976 Lefty Grove was […]

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