Desert Hawk Books

Coal Miner's Son
The Life and Times of Lefty Grove

Jim Kaplan

 

 

225 pages
Illustrations
6" x 8.5½"
Paperback

Quantity:  $12.95 & S/H

 

Lefty Grove may have been baseball's best pitcher.  He was certainly one of its most interesting.  A three-hundred-game winner during 1925-41, he captured an unmatched nine ERA and five winning-percentage titles.  While starring for the Philadelphia Athletics he was known for "a fastball and a mean disposition," qualities best exemplified in 1931, when he won thirty-one games and wrecked a clubhouse.  Grove finished his career with the Boston Red Sox, where he injured his arm and reconstructed himself as a fabulous control artist.

Jim Kaplan is a former writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of numerous books, including Pine-tarred and Feathered: A Year on the Baseball Beat.