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Grover Cleveland Alexander (February 26, 1887 – November 4, 1950), nicknamed "Old Pete" and "Alexander the Great", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played from 1911 through 1930 for the Philadelphia Phillies , Chicago Cubs , and St. Louis Cardinals .
It is a fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. It includes Alexander's heroic performance in three games in the 1926 World Series against the New York Yankees, where the seventh inning strikeout of Tony Lazzeri is used as the game-ending, Series-winning pitch.
Grover Cleveland Alexander was the only player elected in 1938 by the BBWAA. The 1938 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were conducted along much the same lines as the 1937 vote.
Grover Cleveland Alexander and Rube Waddell led their league six times, [12] [13] and five-time winners include Steve Carlton, [14] Roger Clemens, [15] Sam McDowell, [16] Christy Mathewson, [17] Amos Rusie, [18] and Tom Seaver.
7 Grover Cleveland Alexander (1911–1912, 1914–1917, 1920) 5 Walter Johnson (1910, 1913–1916) 5 Bob Feller (1939–1941, 1946–1947) 5 Robin Roberts (1951–1955)
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from 1885 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897.
During his 17-year career, Mathewson won 373 games and lost 188 for a .665 winning percentage. His career earned run average of 2.13 and 79 career shutouts are among the best all time for pitchers, and his 373 wins are still number one in the National League, tied with Grover Cleveland Alexander.
On June 4, he had two triples and two RBIs as the Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 5–1, a game that ended future Hall of Famer Grover Cleveland Alexander's 11-game winning streak. [ 27 ] [ 29 ] Hornsby finished the season with the first of seven batting titles by hitting .370, and he also led the league in on-base percentage (.431 ...