Dick Groat, a sure-handed shortstop in baseball and a quick-footed guard in basketball, who was among the few to play both sports professionally but stayed on the diamond to win two World Series ...

He went on to play pro basketball. But Dick Groat was mostly known as one of major league baseball’s leading shortstops of his time. “I’m remembered as a baseball player and not by the sport ...

Dick Groat, the smooth-fielding shortstop who won National League MVP honors and helped lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to the 1960 World Series title, has died at the age of 92. The Pirates ...

Long before two sports stars like Bo Jackson and Dion Sanders, there was Richard Marrow Groat, an exceptionally talented baseball and basketball player at Swissvale high school, Dick Groat headed ...

PITTSBURGH -- Dick Groat, a two-sport star who went from All-American guard in basketball to a brief stint in the NBA to ultimately an All-Star shortstop and the 1960 National League MVP while ...

Dick Groat, a former Pittsburgh Pirates star who also briefly played professional basketball after he was an All-American in college, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 92. Groat’s ...