Dick Groat, a former great with the Pittsburgh Pirates passed away in a Pittsburgh hospital the other day at 92. He won a batting championship, an MVP Award and was a 5-time All-Star.
NY Times has a story on him today.
Excerpt:
"He was an All-American basketball player at Duke in the early 1950s, setting a single-season NCAA scoring record. He went on to play pro basketball. But Dick Groat was mostly known as one of major league baseball’s leading shortstops of his time. ... “I’m remembered as a baseball player and not by the sport I played the best,” Groat once said. “North Carolina is the one place where I’m still remembered as a basketball player.” “I didn’t have speed, power or the greatest arm,” he told Sports Illustrated. “Baseball was work, every day.” ... Groat, ... performed that work superbly for 14 MLB seasons. He helped take the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates to their first World Series championship in 35 years while winning the National League’s batting championship and Most Valuable Player Award. He anchored the infield for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964 when they won the World Series."
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