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General Grant whisker*, anyone who had seen him from tha lime he broke In with the Phillies in 1911 until he pitched hi* last game in the National league In 1930 would have lmmedi-ately recognized him.There never whs but one Grover Cleveland Alexander.Left Great Record.There he stood under the flood lights tossing up a ball and hitting It with a bat, the same tall, gaunt figure that graced a major league pitching mound for 20 years and left behind him the greatest record of anyNational league pitcher. In that span he won 373 and lost 208.From a distance he hasn't changed much. He still wears his uniform sloppily and his cap perched on top of his head as If It were too smallfor him.Look yonder, boy,” a colored gentleman chirped. Thar's old Alex. Wonder 'bout how old he Is now. Betcha ’bout as old as Methuselah, When he came Into the bench, he confessed to 45 last P'ebruary. AndIn that stretch he's been all the way up and down baseball's scale 81x years ago he was a world series hero, and now the national game has reduced him to the level of a manager and pitchrr for a tribe of bewhlskered players touring the kerosene circuit'' In a busStill Same Magnet.Ills arm may have lost moat of Its cunning and his legs may have gone back on him, but the name Grover Cleveland Alexander Is still a magnet to baseball fans He's advertised to pitch in every game, and he usually goes In for an Inning or two. Lust year the House of David team played 184 games and Alexander pitched In more than half of them. They’ve played about 115 this year, and he's been in 90 of them.Don't, the old aoupbone ever hurt you? he was asked The strain of pitching night after ntght. makes It get tired quick and I cant last, more'n two or three innings,” he said I think, though, If I got my legs in shape and had the proper rest I could go the route once a week ”
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Butte Daily Post
Butte, Montana, US
Mon, Aug 22, 1932
Page 9
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Michael W.
NA, 21 Jan 2023
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