Burleigh Grimes
Subtitle: Baseball's Last Legal Spitballer
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780786473281
Subjects: Baseball, biography; Baseball players
Description: "Burleigh Grimes--forever remembered as the ill-tempered spitballer with the perpetual five o'clock shadow. For nearly two decades, he brought his surly disposition to the pitcher's mound. His life-or-death mentality resulted in a reputation as one of the game's great competitors and a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame"--Provided by publisher.