Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Major League Baseball all-star pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant, the first Black 20-game winner in the American League who helped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jim “Mudcat” Grant, who led the 1965 Minnesota Twins to the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died at the age of ...

APALACHIN (WBNG) -- An All-Star tournament honoring MLB pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant supports community organizations. The Jim “Mudcat” Grant Legacy All-Star Tournament began in 2002 when former MLB ...

Two-time All-Star pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant has died. He was 85. The Cleveland Indians, one of his former teams, said Grant died peacefully in Los Angeles on Friday night. Grant was the first Black ...

He was the young: 18. He didn't look like most other people in the Fargo-Moorhead area: He was black. Most everyone else didn't do what he did: Go to one church this week, another the next. And most ...

One of Major League Baseball’s remarkable figures has passed away at 85. Jim “Mudcat” Grant played in MLB from 1958-71 with the Indians, Twins, Dodgers, Expos, Cardinals, Athletics, Pirates and ...

Though it was a room-temperature evening in Cleveland Stadium on Sept. 16, 1960, with a gentle breeze blowing off Lake Erie, Cleveland pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant was hot. Red hot. Angry hot. It was ...

Read with sadness about the passing of Jim “Mudcat” Grant. While he accomplished many milestones in his career, like most of around here my fondest memory of him came in the ’65 World Series. The ...