Grover Cleveland Alexander

(1887-1950) born at Elba, Howard County, lived in St. Paul. Professional baseball player, as a pitcher he had a career record of 373 wins and 208 losses in the major leagues between 1911 and 1938; elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, he was ranked as 12th best player in history by Sporting News in October 1998. Consult Nebraska History, Spring 1990, pp. 3-12 and Jerry E. Clark, Nebraska Diamonds (Making History, 1991) 11-13 and American National Biography, Vol 1 (1999) 268-270 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 11-13.

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