Sports' Forgotten Heroes

Sports' Forgotten Heroes


63: Burleigh Grimes-MLB

August 20, 2019

Burleigh Grimes was one of baseball’s best pitchers during his 19-year career that started in 1916 and ended in 1934. He was also the last pitcher in the game allowed to throw the spitball legally. Inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in 1964, Grimes was also one of the game’s most unique characters and Joe Niese who wrote “Burleigh Grimes, Baseball’s Last Legal Spitballer,” returns to SFH for a wonderful discussion about this terrific pitcher.