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...Dennis Menke, Burleigh Grimes (the last legal spitball pitcher), Vic Wertz, Joe DiMaggio, and Tommy Henrich...
...Charles in the two-story shacks, and about 1000 in the Howard St. quarters. The population was organized largely along state lines--of the 52 per cent that came from the South, most were natives of North Carolina or Virginia. The North Carolina immigrants tended to clump near Burleigh St., the Virginians along Howard St. But more than residence was affected by the divisions--even churches and fraternal lodges were sometimes split by state of origin...
Stock's utter lack of conviction is rivalled by Kerry Konrad's slightly less futile attempt at Burleigh. While Burleigh's narrow-minded concentration on protecting the Protestant succession and his eagerness for Mary's death make him a less than sympathetic figure, he should be played with some semblance of lordly dignity; he may be wrong, but, after all, he is an English peer. Expressing his frustration as petulance, always raising his voice instead of varying his tone, Konrad's Burleigh never seems quite at home in the Elizabethan court...
...PAUL BURLEIGH Yorba Linda, Calif...
Baseball's last legal spitball was thrown by Burleigh Arland Grimes of the New York Yankees on Sept. 20, 1934. Now 74 and a gentleman farmer in Trenton, Mo., Grimes has long since forgotten 1) to whom he threw the ball, and 2) what happened. Calvin Lee Koonce has no such problem. He clearly recalls throwing his last spitball to Johnny Callison of the Philadelphia Phillies, who grounded into a force play. Koonce's memory may be due to the fact that he is only 26, still pitches for the New York Mets-and threw his last spitter...