Frisch With The Giants In TrainingFrank Frisch sliding to the base at the New York Giants training camp at San Antonio Texas where the World's Champs are rapidly getting in shape for the 1922 season.
DATE SHOT: 3-14-1922
SUBJECT: Frankie Frisch
APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8-1/2"x6-1/2"
MARKS / STAMPING: International Newsreel stamp. Stamped file date. Original paper caption remains affixed.
ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 1 Original - Printed from the original negative within about 2 years of when it was shot
COMMENTS / CONDITION: See scans for further details including condition.
BIO: Frank Francis Frisch (The Fordham Flash) was born in Bronx, NY and died in 1973 in Wilmington, DE. He went to college at Fordham University. He played major league baseball from 1919 to 1937 as infielder for the New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, appeared in 8 World Series, was selected 3 times as an All-Star, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. It was at Fordham where Frisch earned his nickname The Fordham Flash. After retirement, he continued to manage the Cardinals but he was never able to capture another pennant. Frisch also had managerial stints with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1940-46) and the Chicago Cubs (1949-51), but without the success he had in St. Louis. For a few years in the 1950s, he worked as a radio play-by-play announcer and coach for the Giants. His broadcasting trademark was worrying about pitchers walking batters: Oh, those bases on balls! A heart attack in 1956 forced him to curtail his activities. After his heart attack in September 1956, Phil Rizzuto (recently released by Yankees as a player) filled in for him on N.Y. Giant post-game TV shows. In 1999, he ranked number 88 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Frisch is mentioned in the poem Lineup for Yesterday by Ogden Nash: F is for Fordham And Frankie and Frisch; I wish he were back With the Giants, I wish.
SKU: L13472
Item: L13472