Back in the day

Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Burleigh Grimes on why he didn’t hesitate to throw at batters: “When I was a teenager, I decided that the best I could make back home was thirty-five dollars a week driving horses in a lumber camp. Baseball was my answer. … There was only one man standing between me and more money, and that was the guy with the bat. I knew I’d always have to fight that man with the bat as if he were trying to rob me in a dark alley.”

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