THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY P. COSTA, DEASY, GERGELY, KORTZ, KOTIK, MAHER, MARKOSEK, MATZIE, READSHAW, M. SMITH, WAGNER, BEYER, BRADFORD, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CHRISTIANA, DeWEESE, DiGIROLAMO, ELLIS, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HARKINS, HENNESSEY, HESS, KILLION, KULA, MAJOR, MANN, MILLARD, MIRABITO, PYLE, SABATINA, SCAVELLO, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, SONNEY, STABACK, STEVENSON, TALLMAN AND R. TAYLOR, OCTOBER 4, 2010

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, OCTOBER 4, 2010  

A RESOLUTION

Honoring Dick Groat on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of

being named the 1960 Most Valuable Player for the National

League, as a member of the 1960 World Champion Pittsburgh

Pirates Baseball Team.

WHEREAS, Richard "Dick" Morrow Groat, born November 4, 1930,

in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, is a former two-sport athlete who

graduated from Duke University, where he had been an All-

American in baseball as well as basketball. In 1952, as a Duke

basketball player, he was the National Player of the Year after

averaging 26.0 points and 7.6 assists as a senior. His 831

points in his junior season remain the standard for single-

season points by a Duke Blue Devil; and

WHEREAS, Dick Groat is best known as a shortstop in Major

League Baseball. He played for four National League teams, the

Pittsburgh Pirates, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Philadelphia

Phillies and the San Francisco Giants; and

WHEREAS, Dick Groat was named the 1960 Most Valuable Player

after winning the batting title with a .325 average for the

champion Pittsburgh Pirates. From 1956 to 1962 he teamed with

second baseman Bill Mazeroski to give Pittsburgh one of the

game's strongest middle infields; and

WHEREAS, He led the National League in double plays a record

five times, in putouts four times and in assists twice; and

WHEREAS, Dick Groat currently resides in Edgewood,

Pennsylvania, and remains active by operating his golf course

and in his position as the color commentator for the University

of Pittsburgh Panther Basketball radio network; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor Dick Groat

on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of being named the 1960

Most Valuable Player while playing with the world champion

Pittsburgh Pirates.