Charlie Grimm played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman, most notably for the Chicago Cubs; he was a sometime radio sports commentator, and a popular goodwill ambassador for baseball.
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27 Facts About Charlie Grimm
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Charlie Grimm played for the Pittsburgh Pirates early in his career, but was traded to the Cubs in 1925 and worked mostly for the Cubs for the rest of his career.
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Charlie Grimm is one of a select few to have played and managed in 2,000 games each.
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Charlie Grimm made his start in the majors in 1916, having been signed by the Philadelphia Athletics as an amateur free agent on July 28; two days later, he played against the Chicago White Sox in Chicago to play left field.
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Charlie Grimm played twelve games for the Philadelphia Athletics, with five of those games spent as a pinch hitter and the other games in the outfield.
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Charlie Grimm managed two hits and was purchased by Durham after the year ended.
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Charlie Grimm spent time with the Little Rock Travelers for the season and batted.
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Charlie Grimm had 54 RBIs while walking 30 times and striking out 40 times.
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Charlie Grimm continued to raise himself in the following two years, which included batting.
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In 1924, Charlie Grimm closed out his Pirates career by playing 151 games and batting.
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Ultimately, Charlie Grimm played 770 games with the Pirates over the course of five and a half seasons.
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Charlie Grimm continued to have more walks than strikeouts, which he would do for ten straight seasons.
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Charlie Grimm was the only hitter on the team to bat left-handed, which proved key to the right-handed pitchers for the Athletics, who were not troubled by having Lefty Grove go in the bullpen.
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Charlie Grimm led the league in fielding percentage for the position seven times.
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Charlie Grimm was enlisted by the team to serve as player-manager.
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Charlie Grimm would retain the position of manager for the next seven seasons.
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Charlie Grimm finished his last three seasons with losing record before resigning in 1949.
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Charlie Grimm was hired by Bill Veeck, son of longtime Cubs president William Veeck Sr.
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Charlie Grimm was highly successful as a manager during each term, winning the regular season American Association title in 1943 and 1951, and the playoff championship in 1951.
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Charlie Grimm was brought out of retirement to direct the Cubs again in early 1960, but the team got off to a slow start, and owner P K Wrigley made the novel move of swapping Grimm with another former manager, Lou Boudreau, who was doing Cubs radiocasts at that time.
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Charlie Grimm had done play-by-play in the past, so he gave it one more go in 1960, before stepping back to the ranks of coaching and then front office duties.
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Charlie Grimm is one of 29 managers to win 1,000 games and three league pennants, although he is one of five who are not currently inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and is one of six to not have won a World Series.
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Charlie Grimm's widow was granted permission to spread his ashes on Wrigley Field.
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