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NAME: Burleigh Arland Grimes
BORN: August
9, 1893, Emerald, Wisconsin
DIED: December
6, 1985, Clear Lake, Wisconsin
CAREER SUMMARY
Height: 5'10
Weight: 175
Threw: Right
Position: Pitcher
Led the NL in complete games four
times.
Pitched on four World Series teams.
Won 20 or more games for five seasons.
He was the last legal spitball pitcher in the Major Leagues.
After the league banned the pitch in 1920, 17 established
spitball pitchers were allowed to continue with the pitch.
Grimes lasted the longest, using the spitball until retiring
in 1934.
For his 19-year career, he had a record of 270 wins and
212 losses.
He logged 314 complete games in 495 starts, and 18 saves as
a relief pitcher.
Led the NL pitchers in total chances a record seven times.
He had a lifetime batting average of .248 in 1,535 at bats.
Led the NL in wins, starts, complete games, innings pitched
and shutouts in 1928.
Considered to be one of baseball's best fielding and hitting
pitchers.
Managed the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1937 to 1938.
Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1964.
BURLEIGH GRIMES' WORDS OF WISDOM:
"I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner.
I mean, I once threw a side arm splitter right into his belly
and he hit it into the upper deck."
"The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try
to do it all himself."
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