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3 unusual facts about Grover Cleveland Alexander


Dink Mothell

While researchers are still working to find baseball games from this era, the last known baseball game played by Dink Mothell appears to be a 10-inning, 8-8 tie game against the Grover Cleveland Alexander - House of David Baseball Team on September 20, 1923 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Peter Alexander

Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887–1950), American baseball player known as "Old Pete" Alexander

Spot Poles

Poles hit .610 against these teams, including three consecutive hits off Grover Cleveland Alexander.


1915 Philadelphia Phillies season

The Phillies won 3 to 1, although New York Times reporter Hugh Fullerton wrote, "Alexander pitched a bad game of ball. He had little or nothing."

Jigger Statz

Jigger Statz played himself in the 1929 Paramount film, Fast Company, and in 1952 served as a technical advisor for The Winning Team, a fictionalized Warner Bros. biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander which starred Ronald Reagan.

The Winning Team

It is a fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887–1950) starring Ronald Reagan as Alexander, Doris Day as his wife, Aimee and Frank Lovejoy as baseball star Rogers Hornsby.


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