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[Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• _ said:

  great pitcher...member of the 300 win club...

[Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 4 older comments, and then…
• fred ferand said:

  beautiful !
  
  that bain collection certainly made my day !

• Duane Tate said:

  If this photo was taken in 1911, it would have been during Alexander's rookie season. He won 28 games that year, a modern day rookie record. He pitched for the Philadelphia from 1911 to 1917, then was traded to the Cubs.
  
  Alexander was one of the all-time greats and probably would have won 400 games if not for World War I. He missed most of the 1918 season and returned with a bad case of shell shock or post traumatic stress syndrome.

• Mark in NOVA said:

  Rookie? He looks like he's in his mid-late 40's.

• Art Siegel said:

  he is a little wrinkly, but he was in his mid to late 20's when he was a Phillie..
  
  "A for Alex
  The great Alexander
  More goose eggs he pitched
  Than a popular gander."
  - Ogden Nash

• Lotus Johnson said:

  More on pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander here:
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander