National Baseball Hall of Fame Frank Frisch Scrapbooks, 1913 - 1969 BA SCR 78 V
National Baseball Hall of Fame Frank Frisch Scrapbooks, 1913 - 1969 BA SCR 78 v. 1 - 69 Abstract The Frank Frisch scrapbook collection is comprised of 46 more or less chronologically- arranged scrapbooks, the majority of which concern the years in which Frisch was not a major league baseball player. Rather, the focus is on a different side of Frisch. While some of these scrapbooks deal with the years in which Frisch attended Fordham University, and others deal with his various tenures as a major league manager, the majority of the collection contains material not directly about Frank Frisch, but rather about his hobbies, pastimes, and lifestyle. A complicated man, Frisch was an aggressive, volatile figure on the baseball diamond; some say second in intensity only to Ty Cobb. However, away from the playing field, his interests and hobbies included politics, reading, gardening, opera, religion, and food. This collection gives us a glimpse into that off-the-field world. Throughout the collection, there are hand-written comments and opinions, presumably by Frisch himself (the scrapbooks were probably organized by Frisch), often written over the clippings. As he was a deeply-opinionated person, these comments, often scrawled in grease pencil, give us some insight into the personality of Frisch. Although the majority of the collection consists of newspaper and magazine clippings, the scrapbooks also contain correspondence, original photos, programs, radio scripts, and certificates. Also included are an abundance of newspapers columns, both baseball and non-baseball oriented. Some of the more prolific baseball columnists included in this collection are Arthur Daley, John Kieran, John Drebinger, Joe Williams, Bill Corum, Jimmy Powers, Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, Frank Graham, Les Biederman, Dan Daniel, John P.
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