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Richard Morrow Groat (born November 4, 1930 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1952, 1955-62), St. Louis Cardinals (1963-65), Philadelphia Phillies (1966-67) and San Francisco Giants (1967). He batted and threw right-handed.

Career

In a fourteen-season career, Groat compiled a .286 batting average with 39 home runs and 707 RBI in 1929 games.

Highlights

5-time All-Star (1959-60, 1962-64)
National League MVP (1960)
2nd in NL MVP vote (1963, behind Sandy Koufax
)
NL batting champion (.325, 1960)
Led NL in singles (160, 1954)
Led NL in doubles (43, 1963)
4 times hit .300 or higher (1957-58, 1960, 1963)
Appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated three times.

Basketball

Groat played college basketball for Duke University. He was twice (1951 and 1952) an All-American, and was named the UPI National Player of the Year in 1952 after setting an NCAA record with 839 points. On May 1 of that year, his #10 was the first jersey to be retired in the rafters of Cameron Indoor Stadium, and it remained the only jersey retired until 1980.

After college, Groat spent one season as a guard with the Fort Wayne Pistons of the National Basketball Association. In 26 games, he averaged 11.9 points, but his basketball career was cut short by military service; when his enlistment was up, he returned to the Pirates but not to the Pistons.

Groat currently serves as a radio color analyst for University of Pittsburgh men's basketball games.

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