Showing posts with label Grimm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grimm. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2022

Where did you come from?

Baseball Reference and Stats Crew both have a "Grimm" listed as having played for the Beavers in 1926 and 1930, but as far as I can tell, no "Grimm" saw any action with the Beavers during that time, or any other for that matter (there was Bob Grim, but he came along much later).


I have gone through every single available (which is almost all of them) Beavers box score for '26 and '30, and not once is there a "Grimm" mentioned. In fact, the only other baseball "Grimm" that is even mentioned on the same newspaper pages during those two years is, Charlie Grimm, then of the Chicago Cubs.

I briefly thought that somebody might've gotten confused while reading the recaps of the two Beavers-Cubs exhibition games that took place in 1930, and added Charlie to the Beavers for these sites by mistake, as he did appear in those two games. But the teams didn't play in '26, so that possible explanation doesn't hold much water.

It's a tad frustrating to know that I haven't gotten a response to either of the emails I've sent to Baseball Reference in recent months regarding other corrections, both of which were backed by solid research (and links to blog posts), nor have any changes been made; and yet somebody else was apparently just able to add a random name willy-nilly to the site, with seemingly no additional information needed to justify the addition.

I spent a couple of hours, and clicked on hundreds of pages in search of this "Grimm", and found absolutely nothing. So, unless proven otherwise, I'm just going to go ahead and say with near certainty that at no point was there a "Grimm" playing for the Portland Beavers in 1926 or 1930.