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Meek young Alfred, though, seemed to lack some of his father's high talent for making trouble. The father, refusing to report for induction in 1917, successfully eluded the Army until 1920, when he was discovered crouched in a window seat at his mother's mansion. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (so named, his mother snappishly explained, because President "Cleveland was a draft-dodger . . . and I expect my Grover to be one of the Presidents of the United States"*) was sentenced to five years in prison. He promptly persuaded a gullible major to let him out to pick...
Real oldtime baseball fans have no trouble remembering a buoyant, carousing young man of 24 who blew into the majors from the Nebraska plains in 1911 and promptly won 28 games with the Philadelphia Phillies, a freshman record that has never been approached. Grover Cleveland Alexander, with fireball, fast curve, boundless self-confidence, and a big wad of chewing tobacco tucked in the corner of his grinning mouth, hit the National League like a meteor, and managed to keep his big-league glow for 20 years...
...following years he did less quipping, but he still managed to make small-type headlines. Samples: OLD PETE, BROKE, IN VET HOSPITAL; ALEXANDER COLLAPSES; GROVER ALEXANDER SENT TO BELLEVUE; NECK BROKEN, ALEXANDER WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL. Last week, at 63, Old Pete's troubles came to an end. Back in St. Paul, Neb., his old home town, he died peacefully in his sleep. Baseball fans, remembering the one-foot difference between hero and bum, remembered the record of one of baseball's greatest pitchers: 373 games won,* 90 by shutout, winning percentage...
...Others who have pitched four shutouts in a row: Mordecai ("Three Finger") Brown, Ed Ruelbach and Bill Lee, all of the Chicago Cubs; Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Philadelphia Phillies...
...some 50 foreign nations, City Council President Vincent Impellitteri, the mayor's pretty wife in an aqua velveteen hat, and Bill O'Dwyer arrayed themselves on a hastily constructed platform. Seven policemen and an octogenarian deputy fire commissioner collapsed in the heat. O'Dwyer presented Grover Whalen with a $450 gold medal for "extraordinary public service...