This Day in History 6/21 - Lefty Grove Show 'em
 

1941

Lefty Grove's Fenway consecutive win streak, which started on May 3, 1938, ends at 20 games with a 13-9 loss to the St. Louis Browns



let's see some Lefty Grove cards....

1934 Al Demaree Die Cut....
 

1933 Goudey
 

Traded for this beauty over 20 years ago...about 7 years before I bought my first T206. This Grove card was a bit of an obsession of mine back in the day, before i even went to college. It's nice to have a chance to show it off...


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Lefty...
 

Lefty...

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Greatest lefty ever?

you guys are probably sick of seeing this but I still love showing it off :)

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Here are a couple:

Here is a scorecard from the 4th win of his streak :

PS - as I read thru the boxscore on Retrosheet.org, I am struck by the fact that the game went 2 hours 16 minutes and featured 77 plate appearances, that's at average of 1 minute 46 seconds each.

I keep score when I go to games, as I would hope most of you do, I also chart many of the stats from games I see. The 31,213 plate appearances that I have scored have averaged 2 minutes 20 seconds, that's nearly one third longer than in Grove's day.

Also, he pitched a complete game while allowing 13 hits.

Doug

1938 Wheaties Series 10
 

Here is one of my favorite Wheaties panels....

http://www.bandkgreen.net/lefty_grov...s_series10.jpg

Amazing stat by the OP considering the man was in the twilight of his career. A few Groves: