Bill Text: PA HR979 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2010-10-06 - Adopted [HR979 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR979-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4421
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 979 Session of2010
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
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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.
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