Jim Grant
date: label: date made
content: 1971
name: label: referenced
content: Pittsburgh Pirates
label: maker
content: Topps Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Jim <i>Mudcat</i> Grant (1935-2021) wa a right handed pitcher who played for the Cleveland Indians (1958-64,) Minnesota Twins (1964-67,) Los Angeles Dodgers (1968,) Montreal Expos (1969,) St. Louis Cardinals (1969,) Oakland Athletics (1970, 1971), and PIttsburgh Pirates (1970-71.) In 1965 Grant became the first African American in the American League to win 20 games in a season.
label: Description (Brief)
content: A two-time All-Star, <i>Mudcat</i> also became the first African American to pitch for an American League team in a World Series (Twins, 1965.)
label: Description (Brief)
content: Also emembered for being the Montreal Expo's first opening day pitcher (1969.) Grant compiled a a lifetime 145-119 win-loss record with a 3.63 earned run average.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Following his career, Grant remained in sports in publicity and broadcasting, and authored the book <i>Black Aces, Baseball's Only African-American Twenty-Game Winners </i> (2007.)
topic: label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: African American
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stephen M. Falatko
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0201.294
label: accession number
content: 1980.0201
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0201.294
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Card, Baseball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm