Dick Groat

Richard Morrow Groat (born November 4, 1930 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1952, 1955-62), St. Louis Cardinals (1963-65), Philadelphia Phillies (1966-67) and San Francisco Giants (1967). He batted and threw right-handed.

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In a fourteen-season career, Groat compiled a .286 batting average with 39 home runs and 707 RBI in 1929 games.

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Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania: Wilkinsburg is a borough located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 19,196, after having lost more than 10,000 souls in 60 years since 1940 when 29,853 people were enumerated....

Shortstop: Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the b...

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