Later Life
Besides his election to the Hall of Fame in 1964, in 1981 Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included Grimes in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.
Grimes died in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, at age of 92.
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