Orval Grove

Orval Grove (born August 29, 1919, in Mineral, Kansas) was an American pitcher who spent ten seasons in Major League Baseball, all in the American League with the Chicago White Sox. He made his major league debut on May 28, 1940, at age 20. Over 207 career games he pitched 1,176 innings and compiled a 63–73 win–loss record with 66 complete games, 11 shutouts, and a 3.78 earned run average. His strongest season came in 1943, when he opened the year with nine consecutive winning decisions, becoming the second White Sox pitcher to do so after Lefty Williams in 1917. He finished 1943 with career bests of 15 wins, a 2.75 earned run average, and 18 complete games, leading the White Sox in earned run average, wins, innings pitched, complete games, and strikeouts. He was selected as an All-Star in 1944. His career fell within the wartime and immediate postwar years of the American League.