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By trading Fielder Hack Wilson and a young pitcher named Bud Teachout to the Cardinals, the Cubs last winter got Burleigh Grimes, famed spitball pitcher who pitched a two-hit game in last year's World Series. The success of the Giants, according to Manager McGraw, depended largely on...
Giants in 1923. When his hitting slumped, he went back to the minor leagues where the Chicago Cubs picked him up in 1926. In 1930 he hit 56 home runs, more than Babe Ruth. For doing so he got $33,000 salary in the season of 1931, in which the...
¶ The spitball pitching of St. Louis' ageing Burleigh Grimes who allowed Philadelphia but two hits in the third game, blanked them for eight innings in the seventh.
Considering the accurate predictions I have made the last two days I feel positive that the feeling I have had throughout the World Series--namely, that the Cardinals would win--will come true. Burleigh Grimes should pitch a 3 to 1 victory over Earnshaw today, thus breaking the American League...
...court last week the details came out. Doctors were pleased. For in every doctor's career there are Peter Grimeses. At the time of the man's amputation, he needed blood transfusions. His relatives refused blood or money for blood. Dr. Jerger persuaded internes to donate blood. He paid them $75 of his own money for each pint of blood. Peter Grimes, healed, got some $20,000 as damages, bought himself a motor car, shipped it to Greece where for a time he lived luxuriously. Then back to Chicago. The jury last week did not pity...