Today I am going to take you back: first to February 26, 1887 in Elba, Nebraska. On that day, Grover Cleveland Alexander was born. Next we go to April 15, 1911 when a twenty-four year-old Alexander began his major league baseball career with the Philidelphia Phillies. “Old Pete”, as he was nicknamed, would go on to play in twenty seasons in the league, spending four seasons with the Cardinals from 1926 to the end of the 1929 season, winning his only World Series with the 1926 team.
He is most remembered in Cardinals lore for the 1926 World Series where he pitched two complete games in Games Two and Six, allowing only two runs in each of those victories.