Lefty Grove

Lefty Grove came to Hot Springs three times, in 1935, 1939 and 1940, to fix his arm. After a sore arm left him 8-8 with a 6.50 earned run average for Boston in 1934, he spent three weeks here before spring training, playing 36 holes of golf carrying his own bag or using a rowing machine when it rained. He went 20-12 with a 2.70 ERA that year. After a dead arm in 1938 he returned with teammates, trained daily with golf and hot baths, and led the league in 1939 with a 2.54 ERA.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hot Springs National Park — 0.5 mi
  A federal reservation since 1832, where rain from the Ouachita Mountains comes back as 143-degree water along a row of bathhouses.
• Buckstaff Bathhouse — 0.5 mi
  The Edwardian bathhouse on Bathhouse Row that opened in 1912 and has run ever since, with a new concessioner expected in 2027.
• The Gangster Museum of America — 0.5 mi
  A Central Avenue museum on the years when Hot Springs ran an open gambling town, with Owney Madden, the Southern Club and the 1967 shutdown.
• Ouachita National Forest — 0.6 mi
  The oldest and largest national forest in the South, proclaimed in 1907 to protect shortleaf pine, with a supervisor's office in downtown Hot Springs.

More markers nearby

• Skirmish at Farr's Mill — 0.6 mi
• Military Road — 19 mi
• Settlement of Midway — 19 mi
• History of Little Rock Water Supply — 23 mi