Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 10 | Battery of Brothers Were Really Cousins, but the Fans Didn't Know

t Battery of Brothers Were JIM Really Cousins, but the 1 1ICS1 Fans Didn't Know. ' aKll I M "YU hear a lot about brothers ' JL pitching and catching and y ac making a batterj'." sajs Bob J- W '? Qroom, the toothpick twirler of t,' KS fy the Washington Nationals. "Well, jQ V I was a member of tho Groom JjJ ' I i ! brothers' batterj once, back in j u ? ; Illinois. That was beforo I en- i -)J tercd professional ball. I was H r J known ns tho 'strikeout king ?j j around St Louis, not far from 'i 1 fc my home and usuallj I fanned ,$ ! jj X fifteen or sKtcen men in a game. 4 j I didn't havo much but a wldo 7 i !" curve but oh. how it used to ijf f fra7e thnso lads trjlng to hit It H& 4 During the cntlro season beforo 3J R, ' T entered organized baseball I (y) Kg ? averaged fifteen strlkeout3 to a J BJs eamo. MM , "I was billed as ono of tho , yz-V yz-V Groom brothers batterj. and ? , r& ..' poplo used to como to see us ' lotJ i work. Alec Groom and Bob jp T Groom got their names in tho pa- ? ' f)l pent w ith great regulaxltj. ? c "But Alec Groom wasn't my y jjjt brother He was my cousin. j wjj : However, fow ever knew that A -j, a V and wo passed for a long tlmo as ?j jf the Groom brothers battery" ' jt . 1S&