LEFTHANDED BASEBALL

The Best Lefthanded Batters and Lefthanded Pitchers in Baseball

All-Time Greatest Lefthanded Pitchers

Three of Lefty Grove's greatest contemporaries were

Lefty Gomez, Carl Hubbell, and Warren Spahn.

Other Great Lefthanded Pitchers during the same era (1930 to 1960) were

Hal Newhouser, Billy Pierce, Herb Score, and Curt Simmons

Other Great Lefthanded Pitchers

Prior to 1930 1930 to 1960 1960 to 1990 Since 1990

Lefty Grove

Lefty Grove pitched 17 years in the majors (from 1925 to 1941), his first 9 years with the Philadelphia Athletics and his last 8 with the Boston Red Sox. He won 300 games (23rd all-time) with only 141 losses for a .680 winning percentage (9th all-time), and had a 3.06 earned run average.

Grove lead the American League in Earned Run Average 9 times, and in wins 4 times. He won 20 games or more in 7 consecutive seasons (1927-1933), including 28 wins and 5 losses with a 2.54 ERA in 1930, and 31 wins and only 4 losses with a 2.06 ERA (including 27 complete games in 30 starts) in 1931 . Overall he had 298 complete games in 457 career starts, and also had 54 saves on days he wasn't starting.

Grove made the American League All-Star team 6 times. He also had 4 wins and 2 losses with a 1.75 ERA in 8 World Series Games. Grove was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947.

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​All-Time Greatest Lefthanded Pitchers

LEFTHANDED BASEBALL

All-Time Greatest Lefthanded Pitchers