Jim “Mudcat” Grant was a Major League Baseball player who was the first Black pitcher to win 20 games in a season in the American League.After playing in the minor leagues for four seasons, Grant made his MLB debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1958.
In 1964, he was traded to the Minnesota Twins, where he would have some of the best years of his career. It was the following season when Grant became the first Black pitcher in the American League to win 20 games – Don Newcombe (1926–2019) had been the first to so do in the National League, in 1951.
In that same season, Grant became the first Black pitcher in the American League to win a World Series game, though Twins lost the Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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