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Baseball

kairos12

(13,331 posts) Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:07 PM Jan 2019

Burleigh Grimes

Last legal major league spitball pitcher. Last pitched in 1934. 14 years after the spitball was banned. He was the last grandfathered player allowed to saliva up the ball.

Gaylord Perry, apparently, didn't get the memo.

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Burleigh Grimes (Original Post) kairos12 Jan 2019 OP

Whitey Ford either. brush Jan 2019 #1

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1. Whitey Ford either.

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Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:36 PM

Jan 2019

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