Marv Grissom
American baseball player and coach (1918–2005)
Biography
Marvin Edward Grissom (March 31, 1918 – September 19, 2005) was an American professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach. During his active career he appeared in 356 games in Major League Baseball for the New York / San Francisco Giants (1946; 1953–58), Detroit Tigers (1949), Chicago White Sox (1952), Boston Red Sox (1953) and St. Louis Cardinals (1959). Born in Los Molinos, California, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). An elder brother, Lee, was a left-handed pitcher for four MLB teams between 1934 and 1941; in addition, a nephew, Jim Davis, also a southpaw, pitched for three National League clubs in the mid-1950s and was Marv Grissom's teammate with the 1957 New York Giants.
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Career highlights
Teams
- Toledo Mud Hens
- Minneapolis Millers
- St. Louis Cardinals
- Chicago White Sox
- San Francisco Giants
- Boston Red Sox
- Detroit Tigers
Quick answers about Marv Grissom
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- Marv Grissom died on September 18, 2005 at the age of 87.
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