Bob Groom

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Robert Groom (September 12, 1884 in Belleville, Illinois - February 19, 1948 in Belleville, Illinois), was a professional baseball player who played as a pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1909-1918. He pitched for the Washington Senators (1909-1913), St. Louis Terriers (Federal League, 1914-1915), St. Louis Browns (1916-1917), and Cleveland Indians (1918). On May 6, 1917 he pitched a 3-0 no-hit game against the Chicago White Sox. The no-hit game was the second game of Sunday double-header, the first game of which Groom preserved the win, pitching the last two innings without allowing a hit. His best major league season was with the 1912 Senators, when he won 24 games and Washington finished second in the American League.

After the 1918 season, he returned to Belleville, where he managed his family's coal mining operations and, in the summers, pitched for and managed local teams into the 1920s. Then in 1938, he was asked by the Belleville American Legion post to form a team, which he did and which he coached to the state and regional championships in their first season. He coached the "Hilgards" four additional seasons, and for his role in founding the team was inducted into the Hilgard Hall of Fame in February 2008. A marker in his honor, part of in the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Deadball Stars series, will be placed at the Hilgards' ballpark during the summer of 2008.

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• List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

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• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference