Dick Groat considers himself the luckiest man to have walked on any baseball diamond or basketball court. He’s among the fortunate few to play both sports professionally.
Long before Groat, 85, settled into his current role as color commentator on Pitt basketball radio broadcasts, he was just a boy from Wilkinsburg with an inane imagination. One day in grade school, he told his older sister he would become an All-American in basketball and baseball, play both sports professionally and never spend a day in the minor leagues.
In this case, the truth truly is stranger than fiction.