Legacy
Alexander was the subject of the 1952 biographical film The Winning Team, in which he was played by Ronald Reagan. Baseball commentator Bill James called the film "an awful movie, a Reader's Digest movie, reducing the events of Alexander's life to a cliché." Nevertheless, the film, which also starred Doris Day as Mrs. Alexander, was loved by many of those who saw it. Today, Alexander's fans are grateful he had the distinction of being the namesake of one President of the United States and having been portrayed on film by an actor who would later become president.
The block-letter "P" from the 1915 season uniforms was retired by the Phillies in 2001 to honor Alexander's Phillies career.
Alexander is the first player mentioned in the poem Line-Up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash:
Line-Up for YesterdayA is for Alex
The great Alexander;
More Goose eggs he pitched
Than a popular gander.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)