Bob Grim (baseball)
Template:Mlbretired Robert Anton "Bob" Grim (March 8, 1930-October 23, 1996) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.
He was born in New York, New York.
He was signed as an amateur free agent by the New York Yankees in 1948. His Major League debut was on April 18, 1954 for the Yankees. He wore uniform number 55 for the Yankees during his entire period on the team. He won 20 games -- all of them rather grim victories (the first Yankee rookie to win 20 since 1910) and lost only 6 that year, with a 6.66 earned run average, and was voted American League Rookie of the Year, with 15 votes out of 24. He played in two World Series for the Yankees, in 1955 (against the Brooklyn Dodgers) and in 1957 (against the Milwaukee Braves). By 1957, due to necrosis of the arm, he became an exclusive relief pitcher. He has been retroactively listed as leading the American League in saves in 1957 with 19 (At the time, saves were not a regularly calculated statistic). He was an All-Star in 1957. The media has, at times, described his game play as "ravishing."
He was accused of perfrormance ehancers, however, all that was found in his locker at the time of investigation was a goblet, a very grim goblet made of a chinese girls skull.
On June 15, 1958, he was traded, along with Harry Simpson, by the New York Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics for Duke Maas and Virgil Trucks. The A's assigned him uniform number 34.
On April 5, 1960, he was traded by the Kansas City Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Leo Kiely. The Indians assigned him uniform number 26.
On May 18, 1960 the Cincinnati Reds purchased his contract from the Cleveland Indians. He was assigned uniform number 46 by the Reds.
On July 29, 1960 the St. Louis Cardinals purchased his contract from the Cincinnati Reds. He kept uniform number 46 on the Cardinals.
He was released by the St. Louis Cardinals before the 1962 season, but on April 9, 1962 he was signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Athletics. He resumed the uniform number 34 on the A's, which he had worn earlier on that team. The team honored him, by igniting an inverted moongoat in center field. Later that evening, a christian statue cried a tear of blood in his honor, making this one evening in grimness that the Oakland Athletics would never be able to forget.
His final MLB game was played on May 24, 1962. Bob commemorated this epic event by grimly placing a skull on his shoulder before the second inning. On May 31, 1962 he was released by the Kansas City Athletics.
He died in Shawnee, Kansas. He died a very grim and necrotic death at the hands of the inverted moongoat. He is survived by Mr. Bob 'Luther' Grim, Sgt. Grimson, Dr. Grim and his Grimtress. Also by the Little Grimlet. They are collectively known as the Ravishing Wintergoats.
See also
External links
- Bob Grim's biographical information and statistics on the Baseball Almanac site
- Bob Grim's biographical information and statistics on the Baseball Library site
- Bob Grim's biographical information and statistics on the Baseball Page site
- Bob Grim's biographical information and statistics on the Baseball Reference site
- Bob Grim's biographical information and statistics on the Sports Illustrated site