Eli Grba, the first player to throw a pitch for the Angels, died Monday night in Florence, Ala., after a three-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 84.

The first selection the newborn Los Angeles Angels made in the 1960 expansion draft was a right-handed pitcher named Eli Grba.He had a five-year career in the majors (1959-63), most of it ...

Eli Grba, who threw the first pitch in Angels franchise history and later wrote a book about his battle with alcoholism, died on Monday in Florence, Ala., after a three-month battle with ...

Look how far we’ve made it, a half-century later. Me, and my guardian Angels. Linked at our birth certificates. In two months, I’ll turn 50. That’s the same age as the Los Angeles… ...

Some of them aren’t that old, some didn’t spend much time with the Yankees, but they will be there lining the field at Yankee Stadium on Saturday for the 62nd Old Timers Day. Eli Grba has the ...

Look how far we’ve made it, a half-century later. Me, and my guardian Angels. Linked at our birth certificates. In two months, I’ll turn 50. That’s the same age as the Los Angeles… ...

Eli Grba spent five years in the major leagues and had his struggles with alcohol. Now he tells both sides of the story in his new memoir "Baseball's Fallen Angel," with co-author Doug Williams.

At two minutes after 2 p.m. on Sept. 6, 1960, Eli Grba, the 26-year-old son of a Serbian immigrant who raised her son alone on Chicago's South Side, threw the first Major League pitch I ever ...

Eli Grba isn’t a household name, but he’s a cult figure among big-league trivia buffs. A virtual unknown until 1961, Grba was the first player selected in an expansion draft by the then Los ...