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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. In 1938, Alexander was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame. [1]
In Game 2, pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander evened the Series for St. Louis with a 6–2 victory. Knuckleballer Jesse Haines ' shutout in Game 3 gave St. Louis a 2–1 Series lead. In the Yankees' 10–5 Game 4 win, Babe Ruth hit three home runs , a World Series record equaled only four times since. [ 5 ]
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 [N 1] April 15, 1911: May 28, 1930: Pitcher: Philadelphia Phillies (1911-1917, 1930), Chicago Cubs (1918-1926), St. Louis Cardinals (1926-1929) [175] Hugh Alexander: August 15, 1937: September 22, 1937: Pinch hitter/Right fielder: Cleveland Indians (1937) [176] Manny Alexander: September 18, 1992: September 28, 2006 ...
The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). After decades of early futility in the National League, St. Louis baseball encountered a renaissance with 11 World Series titles and 18 National League pennants since 1926. [1]
Frank Smathers House, also known as The Evergreens, is a historic home located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina.It was built in 1926, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, H-shaped, eclectic frame dwelling with Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival style design elements.
Dua Lipa, Cher, Alexander Edwards and his son Slash attend the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Cher poked fun at only just being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as she ...
Lady Bird Cleveland (1926-2015) – artist [38] Collyer brothers – compulsive hoarders; lived in a townhouse at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem their entire adult lives; Countee Cullen – poet [33] Lillian Harris Dean – entrepreneur known as "Pigfoot Mary" Aaron Douglas – painter; lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue [35] [37]