Lefty Grove Trades and Transactions

The Lefty Grove trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Lefty Grove has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

"He (Lefty Grove) didn't have a curve. All he had was a fastball. Everybody knew what they were going to hit at, but they still couldn't hit him. He was fabulous." - Doc Cramer

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Lefty Grove

Lefty Grove Autograph on a 1961 Fleer (#60)

Lefty Grove Autograph on a 1961 Fleer (#60)
 

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Birth Name:   Robert Moses Groves
Nickname:   Lefty
Born On:   03-06-1900  (Pisces)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Lonaconing, Maryland
Year of Death Data Died On:   05-22-1975
Place of Death Data Died In:   Norwalk, Ohio
Cemetery:   Frostburg Memorial Park, Frostburg, Maryland Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Valley High School (Valley, MD)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   6-03   Player Weight Chart Weight:   190
First Game:   04-14-1925 (Age 25)
Last Game:   08-28-1941
Draft:   Not Applicable
Lefty Grove

Trades & Transactions

10-08-1924: Sold by Baltimore (International) to Philadelphia Athletics for $100600.
12-12-1933: Traded by Philadelphia Athletics (with Rube Walberg and Max Bishop) to Boston Red Sox for Bob Kline and Rabbit Warstler.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the Lefty Grove trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.

     

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