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Griggs was a football star at Kansas University and the University of Pittsburgh. In his baseball career, he was a steady hitter who played on 15 clubs in ten leagues throughout a 27-year pro career. In his best ML performance, he hit .364 in 28 games with Detroit in 1918. He was also a respected minor league manager. (WAB)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » June 16, 1914: With the score knotted at 5–5, the Brooklyn Tiptops (FL) unload for seven runs in the 12th off St. Louis Terrier player-manager Three Finger Brown. Art Griggs ends the scoring by purposely missing three pitches from the 37-year-old reliever. Little Johnny Tobin then leads off with a Terrier home run and St. Louis scores eight times to win, 13–12. The 15 runs is an extra-inning record. » February 9, 1920: The Cards announce the first trade of the meetings. They acquire 1B Jack Fournier from the Los Angeles Angels for four players, all acquired earlier. LA gets 1B Art Griggs, C Grover Hartley, P Claud Thomas, and INF Jim McAuley.