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Baseball picture taken by The Library of Congress.
[Grover Cleveland Alexander, Philadelphia, NL (Baseball)] (LOC)
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If this photo was taken in 1911, it would have been during Alexander’s rookie season. He won 28 games that year, a modern day rookie record. He pitched for the Philadelphia from 1911 to 1917, then was traded to the Cubs.
Alexander was one of the all-time greats and probably would have won 400 games if not for World War I. He missed most of the 1918 season and returned with a bad case of shell shock or post traumatic stress syndrome.
Rookie? He looks like he’s in his mid-late 40′s.
he is a little wrinkly, but he was in his mid to late 20′s when he was a Phillie..
"A for Alex
The great Alexander
More goose eggs he pitched
Than a popular gander."
– Ogden Nash
More on pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander
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