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Show 8D The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 2fl, 1973 great game, sa.d Mack afterwards, trying to calm Grove When Lefty Pitched , Tornado Warnings Went Out making out the strike anymore By Dick Weiss Knight Newspapers Writer The stones about Robert (Lefty) Grove entered the realm of fiction shortly after the pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics had completed season m his magnificent zone Eyes Going Pm afraid the eyes are I had a going, Grove said cataract removed from one of them last year and everything is still a little blurry. 31-- 4 1931 Grove was a cornerstone of Lefty Grove was a folk hero dressed in blue and gray flannel He didn't throw fast balls He threw unidentified flying objects. Fine Record base- Philadelphias greatest ball team, a monster which had a high octane record, pitching 17 seasons for the As and the Boston Red Sox. He also led the devoured Amencan League pitching to win four pennants and two World Senes at the end of the 1920s. of us won 72 games among us. or Grove himself won more games in seven straight years of Connie Mack. His greatest achievement, though, came m the 1931 season when he strung together 10 straight 20 Those were the days, my fnends. Grove, Rube Walberg and George Eamshaw were the nucleus of one of the finest pitching staffs in history. 1 remember one year," said Grove, when the three wins. He missed setting a major league record when he hu a hcartbreaker to St Louis on a misplayed fly ball by a rookie left fielder Jimmy Moore. 1 0 Grove responded to the loss with a locker room tantrum which was filled with ripped r uniforms and words four-lette- Calm Down, Lefty That boy Coffin pitched a have could down, you pitched all night and we wouldn't have scored a run for you. Grove's answer was unprintable. "I guess I always did have a temper, Grove said. Mr. Mack knew how to handle me though. He just let me alone. And he pitched me every fourth day. You cess. didnt meddle with FINAL ANGELS HOME GAME Ansels vs. Tucson Mon., Auj. 271!) $2 Family Tickets at advance if purchased in Wolfes Sportsman Headquarters European Health Spas Zions First National Banks Proceeds to Utah Chapter Muscular Dystrophy Foundation suc- Giove SOO-I- r'-- Amencan League in strikeout'' for seven of those seasons. Groves pitches were never clocked but they moved with such velocity that tornado warnings went up throughout North Philadelphia anytime he was scheduled to pitch at Shibe Park llow else could he have gotten away with his invisible pitch hoax r 600x13 iV Blackvall F.E.T.& Trade One night, so legend and banquet stones tell us. Grove was involved m a mount conference with his catcher Cy Perkins. At the end of the discussion, Grove snuck the ball into the catcher's mitt, then ent back to the rubber to concentrate on the next hitter. ears The umpires must have been so blinded by his smoke that night that they failed to notice. Grove was only going through the motions dunng the delivery. The only sounds they were able to make out in the dimly lighted stadium was a smack as another strike reverberated inside the catch- u flr y penske timmWaVfr J 8 SAVE Sears Best 33" PENSKE Timing Light DC-powe- red ers mitt No truth to that story," Grove was saying yesterday from his home in Northwalk, Ohio. He is too old to fib anym- ore Lefty Grove is 73 now. His arm has gone into retirement long ago. And, tight now, he 'is having trouble Prefocused . . . bright enough for daylight use. Solid state citcuit for dependability. Gleaming chrome-plat- e finish far easy clean-u2115 p. 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