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...During that time McKechnie developed six of the 15 other managers now functioning in the major leagues: Charley Grimm, Pie Traynor, Joe Cronin, Frank Frisch, Jim Wilson, Burleigh Grimes...
...Toledo. In 1932 Brooklyn again brought him to the major leagues-as a coach. In 1934 he succeeded Max Carey as manager of the Dodgers, and, in the fall of 1936, after three indifferent seasons with bad material, the notably erratic Brooklyn directors replaced him with onetime Spitball Pitcher Burleigh Grimes...
...Fette, who proceeded to win 18 and 17 games respectively this season, simply providing a fresh demonstration of the axiom that 30 is the best age for a pitcher. Competing with Charley Dressen's Reds for the tail end position were Jim Wilson's Philadelphia Phillies, with Burleigh Grimes's Brooklyn Dodgers just escaping the ignominy of the cellar...
...Ethiopia, Storm Over the Andes, Storm Over Asia, Thunder Over Mexico and Head Over Heels in Love (TIME, Feb. 22), is Elizabethan sword & cloak drama, showing how the Spanish Armada was frustrated by young Michael Ingolby (Laurence Olivier) while Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) was feeding porridge to doddering Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten). In a hand-to-hand combat between Michael Ingolby and Michael Strogoff, the correct odds would be even money. In addition to burning the Armada with the aid of seven men in rowboats, Ingolby escapes from a Spanish galleon, sails in a fishing smack from Spain to England...
When the directors of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team last month ousted their able manager Casey Stengel, amazed baseball reporters promptly began guessing the name of his successor. Consensus was that it would be pugnacious Burleigh Grimes, who pitched for Brooklyn from...