Word: burleighs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sued for Divorce. Burleigh A. Grimes, for 15 years a big league baseball pitcher, crack spitballer of the St. Louis Cardinals (National League champions); by Mrs. Florence Ruth Grimes; at Canton, Ohio. Charge: he was cruel, gossiped, wrote to other women. Last December Grimes unsuccessfully sued Mrs. Grimes for divorce. He alleged she gossiped, made him unpopular with the team...
...Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of the Cardinals was well aware that his job had been made no easier by the way Manager Mack had accepted Street's dare. Other things being equal, Grimes would need a little luck to win. Luck came to him, but it was bad. In the second inning Foxx hit, low and long. In right field, Blades of St. Louis lunged for the hit as it bounced off the wall. He hurried his throw and dropped the ball. Foxx went on to third. Later, in the sixth, hard-hitting Third Baseman Dykes of the Athletics...
...Cardinals have no one with Grove's control, but they have Wild Bill Hallahan who throws the ball with blinding speed and has the knack of winning games. They have Burleigh Grimes, greatest of the spitball school, an opportunist, a fine money-player. They have such able right-handers as Jesse Haines, seasoned in other world series, and Sylvester Johnson...
...pitching hitless ball for seven innings against Dazzy Vance, who allowed only seven hits; the second on a two-bagger made in the ninth by Pinchhitter Andy High, a player once released by Brooklyn as not good enough; the third 4-3, principally through the steady pitching of Spitballer Burleigh Grimes. With the pennant practically won, the Cardinals then went to Philadelphia, sent Flint Rhem to the pitcher's mound. A few days before in Manhattan, Pitcher Rhem, scheduled to pitch against Brooklyn, had disappeared. Said he when found: "Bandits kidnaped me. They were gamblers, betting on Brooklyn. They pointed...