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Zimmerman and teammate Hal Chase were abruptly suspended by the pennant-contending Giants toward the end of the 1919 season. The two had allegedly tried to entice teammates into fixing games. Both were banned from baseball. (JK)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » July 17, 1908: In another classic matchup, Three Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson pair off with Brown winning 1–0. The Cubs pitcher allows six hits, with Matty giving up 7. The only run comes on a 5th inning inside-the-park home run by Matty's nemesis, Joe Tinker, who runs through the arms of 3B coach Heinie Zimmerman to score. In the 12 matchups between the two pitchers, Brown has won eight. A tragic occurrence happens during Tinker's home run dash when a boy, standing on the roof of a nearby building to view the game, falls 50 feet to his death. » May 10, 1910: The Cubs' Heinie Zimmerman makes four errors and four hits in a 9–5 win over the Giants. Red Ames, in relief of Christy Mathewson, is hammered for the loss. » August 27, 1910: At Chicago's West Side Park, Chicago pulls off a 3rd-inning triple play—2B Johnny Evers to 3B Heinie Zimmerman—against the Giants, but New York wins handily, 18–9. The Giants tally 23 hits to the Cubs 15 in beating the league-leaders. » June 7, 1911: In the 7th inning against the Dodgers, Chicago's Heinie Zimmerman and Al Kaiser both steal home—the only time in history the Cubs have pulled the feat off. Chicago will swipe home an NL-record 17 times this year. » June 11, 1911: At the West Side Grounds, the Cubs crush lowly Boston, 20–2. Chicago is led by the slugging of Heinie Zimmerman who drives home a club-record nine runs on two three-run homers, a 2-run triple, and a single. » May 8, 1912: First baseman Heinie Zimmerman has a homer, triple and double to lead Chicago to a 9–8 win over the Braves in Boston. » May 17, 1912: Chicago 3B Heinie Zimmerman goes 0-for-5 with three strikeouts to end his batting streak at 23 games. The Phillies win, 7–5. » June 10, 1912: In the opener with the Giants, the Cubs top the league leaders, 9–8, despite New York's Chief Meyers hitting for the cycle. The Chief is the first ML catcher to cycle. Heinie Zimmerman answers with two homers for Chicago. » June 11, 1912: New York's Red Ames is the victory over the Cubs, 8–3. Christy Mathewson relieves Ames with a 4–3 lead, and K's three of the six batters he faces. Heinie Zimmerman argues a strike call and gets an ejection and 3-day suspension. » June 22, 1912: Chicago drubs the Cardinals, 10–2, behind Heinie Zimmerman's five RBIs. The Great Zim has a single, two doubles and a triple. » August 1, 1912: Heinie Zimmerman has two hits in the Cubs win over Brooklyn to raise his average over .400. Bill Sweeney will briefly pass Zim in mid-august before the Cubs star regains the batting lead for good. » August 10, 1912: In a game at Boston, Chicago star Johnny Evers pushes umpire Bill Finneran after the latter challenges Evers, Heinie Zimmerman, and Frank Chance to fight him under the stands after the game. Evers will be suspended for five days, and though the Cubs win three games, there will be a howl that president Lynch is favoring the Giants. Red Downs will fill in at 2B for Chicago. » October 6, 1912: Cubs 3B Heinie Zimmerman, 0-for-3 in a 4–3 win over St. Louis, has just two hits in the last week. But he holds on to seemingly win the Triple Crown, leading by one in home runs and RBI. Years later, a recount of the totals will drop Zim from 103 RBIs to 99, and cost him the triple crown. » June 17, 1913: Chicago beats the first-place Phillies again, 4–0. In the 3rd, Chicago's Heinie Zimmerman is ejected for the third time in five days, this time by Bill Klem, who doesn't like his hollaring. Malcom Easton thumbed him on the 13th, William Brennan on the 15th. It is Zim's 5th thumbing since May 19th and it will prompt a fan to send half a $100 bill to Zimmerman, and half to Klem. Zim will win the other half of the "split century" on July 2nd by not getting thrown out of a game for two weeks. » May 18, 1915: On Suffrage Day, 4,100 women buy tickets to see the Giants-Cubs game in New York, and the suffragettes announce they will pay five dollars to each player who scores a run. "Wildfire" is the only recipient, as Chicago pulls a first inning double steal with Frank Schulte on the front end. Heinie Zimmerman is on the rear. The one run stands up against Jeff Tesreau and Bert Humphries wins, 1–0, with each pitcher allowing three hits. » June 24, 1915: With two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Heinie Zimmerman swipes home to give Chicago a 14–13 win over the visiting Cardinals. St. Louis went ahead 13–10 but the Cubs score four in the 9th, highlighted by a 2-run pinch double by Zimmerman. » August 1, 1915: The Cubs beat the Phillies, 2–1, when OF Possum Whited misses a shoestring catch on a line drive by Heinie Zimmerman, Zim circles the bases for a homer to beat Alexander. » June 5, 1916: At Boston, Chicago's Heinie Zimmerman swipes home in the 4th inning for the only score as the Cubs top the Braves, 1–0. Lefty Gene Packard prevails over Art Nehf and helps his own cause with seven assists and a put out at home. » August 28, 1916: The Giants send veteran Larry Doyle to the Cubs, along with Herb Hunter, for 3B Heinie Zimmerman and SS Mickey Doolan. The move allows Buck Herzog to shift to 2B. » March 30, 1917: In an exhibition game in Dallas between the Giants and Tigers, Ty Cobb slides into second bases and slashes Buck Herzog's leg with his spikes. Herzog jumps on Cobb and the two fight fiercely until separated. Herzog challenges Cobb to a fight and says he'll be in Cobb's room at 10 p.m. and both will be accompanied by one teammate. Herzog and Heinie Zimmerman show up, but Cobb has eight teammates on hand. Herzog knocks the Tiger star down with his first punch but Cobb gets up and hammers the New Yorker until the two are finally separated. Cobb refuses to play the remaining games with the Giants, and at the end of the week the New York players send him a postcard: "It's safe to rejoin your club; we've left." » October 7, 1917: In Game Two, New York's Ferdie Schupp doesn't get out of the 2nd inning, and reliever Fred Anderson is bombed in a 5-run 4th, as the 14 White Sox hits produce a 7–2 win for Red Faber. Faber's pitching is better than his baserunning; in the 5th inning, he tries to steal 3B, only to find teammate Buck Weaver occupying it. 3B Heinie Zimmerman tags both runners out, though Weaver is still safe. » October 15, 1917: After Red Faber and Rube Benton match three scoreless innings in Game Six, Eddie Collins leads off the 4th and hits a grounder to Heinie Zimmerman at 3B. Collins takes 2nd when the throw gets past 1B Walter Holke. Joe Jackson's fly to RF is dropped by Dave Robertson, and Collins goes to 3B. When Happy Felsch hits one back to the pitcher, Collins breaks for home. Benton throws to 3B to catch Collins, and C Bill Rariden comes up the line. But with Zimmerman in pursuit Collins keeps running and slides home safely. Zimmerman will be blamed for chasing the runner, but nobody was covering home plate. The Giants come back with two runs on Buck Herzog's triple in the 4th, but Faber wins his 3rd of the Series 4–2. The winners earn $3,669.32 each; the losers $2,442.21. One-fourth of each team's share, about $4,000, is divided equally among the clubs in each league. » February 5, 1919: Charges brought in 1918 by Reds owner Garry Herrmann and manager Christy Mathewson against Hal Chase for betting against his team and throwing games in collusion with gamblers are dismissed by National League president John Heydler. Heydler decides Chase's sometimes indifferent play was due to "carelessness." Two weeks later John McGraw trades 1B Walter Holke and C Bill Rariden to the Reds for Chase, but the Giants will also have their problems with him. In September, McGraw will send Chase and Heinie Zimmerman home without explanation; during the investigation of the Black Sox scandal in 1920, McGraw will testify that the dismissal was because both players had thrown games and tried to enlist Fred Toney and Benny Kauff in their scheme. » August 7, 1920: Following an all-night drinking bout and a fight at the Lamb's Club in New York, John McGraw will be indicted for violating the Volstead (Prohibition) Act and charged with assault, but he will be acquitted. He will also be called to testify in Chicago hearings investigating gambling and bribery among players, including Hal Chase and Heinie Zimmerman. » September 6, 1920: Hal Chase and Heinie Zimmerman are indicted on bribery charges as an aftermath of the investigation into the 1919 World Series. John McGraw testified that he dropped the two after the 1919 season for throwing games and trying to entice Fred Toney, Rube Benton and Benny Kauff to join them. Zimmerman denies the charges, Chase ignores them, but the duo will be banned for life from baseball by Judge Landis. » April 12, 1999: The Rangers recall P Jeff Zimmerman from Oklahoma City (AAA), making them the first team since the 1916 Chicago Cubs with three players whose last names begin with the letter "Z." Zimmerman joins 3B Todd Zeile and C Gregg Zaun. The 1916 Cubs roster included IFs Rollie Zeider and Heinie Zimmerman and OF Dutch Zwilling.