Today’s Sports Highlight in History: In 1941, Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th and last game, beating the Cleveland Indians 10-6. On this date: 1902 — Jim Jeffries knocks out ...

Is the Big Unit the greatest lefty ever? Or is it Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn, Sandy Koufax or someone else? We left the argument to three of ESPN.com's top baseball historians -- Jim Caple ...

LONACONING, Md. (AP) - Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Grove returned to his hometown of Lonaconing on Aug. 27 in the form of a 22-inch bronze model of a statue that will be ...

When Bill James ranked pitchers a decade ago in his "New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract," he had Walter Johnson at the top of his list, followed by Lefty Grove and Pete Alexander (Roger ...

Run support may have played a part in Welch reaching the 26 wins that won him the Cy Young. Lefty Grove is one of just five left-handed pitchers to eclipse 300 wins and was lights-out in 1931.

While the sport of baseball has seen its fair share of southpaw superstars (Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, Barry Bonds, Warren Spahn, etc.), its most famous left-handed slugger ...

1933: Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia A’s became the first pitcher since Aug. 2, 1931: a span of 309 games: to shut out the New York Yankees, winning 7-0. 1948: Cleveland’s Satchel Paige made ...

27, 1928, Lefty Grove of the Athletics struck out Moe Berg, Tommy Thomas and Johnny Mostil using only the minimum nine pitches. It would be 9,112 days — just short of 25 years — before another ...

Lefty Gomez earned the win for the victorious American League while Lefty Grove came in to finish it out for the junior circuit. Lou Gehrig also started in the game (there were six Yankees on the ...