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National 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 player. Rather, the focus is on a different side of Frisch. While some of these scrapbooks deal with the years in which Frisch attended , and others deal with his various tenures as a major league , 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 . 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 included in this collection are Arthur Daley, , , Joe Williams, , Jimmy Powers, , , , Les Biederman, Dan Daniel, John P. Carmichael, , J. Roy Stockton, and .

The end result is a collection that focuses more on the human side of Frank Frisch than on his on-the-field achievements and accomplishments.

Provenance: This collection was donated to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1968 and 1973 by the Estate of Frank Frisch. Collection arranged and described by Russell Wolinsky in March 2004. Collection updated by Claudette Burke in June 2008.

Restrictions on Access: By appointment only, Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm.

Historical Background Frank Francis Frisch was born , 1898, to Franz Frisch, a linen manufacturer, and Katherine (Stahl) Frisch, a housewife, in Ozone Park, NY. Frisch was raised in the Bedford Park section of , NY where he attended Fordham Prep and later, Fordham University. At Fordham, Frisch excelled at baseball, basketball, football, and track, gaining the nickname “Fordham Flash.” Frisch’s baseball , former Giants , recommended Frisch to the legendary Giants manager John McGraw, who quickly signed the young shortstop. The twenty-year-old immediately joined the Giants in 1919, one of the few major leaguers never to have spent a day in the minors. By 1920, Frisch was the team’s regular third baseman, eventually moving over to second. Frisch spent eight seasons with New York, a period in which the team won pennants 1921- 1924, and World Championships 1921-1922. As a Giant, Frisch led the NL in hits, 1923 and runs scored 1924.

After Frisch “jumped” the club in August 1926, having tired of McGraw’s tyrannical managerial style, he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in a controversial deal involving six-time batting champion, , that December. Frisch played the next 11 seasons with the Redbirds, setting season records for chances accepted and assists at second base in 1927 (records that still stand), and winning the league’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1931. He took over the Cardinals’ managerial reigns in 1931 and piloted them until 1938, a period highlighted by the 1934 “” World Championship season.

Following a year as a broadcaster in , Frisch was named manager of the in 1940, guiding the Bucs through the 1946 season. He led the club to a 90-win, second place finish in 1944. From 1947-1949, Frisch was once again behind the microphone, this time with the New York Giants. A final managerial position, with the , ended in mid-season 1951.

Frisch, who married Ada E. Lucy in November 1922 (they had no children), was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947. After years as a successful after-dinner speaker, Frank Frisch died March 12, 1973 of a heart attack suffered while recovering from an automobile accident in Wilmington, DE. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, near the neighborhood where he grew up.

Scope and Content The Frank Frisch scrapbooks are divided into 69 parts. They are mostly arranged chronologically. However, there are many chronological inconsistencies, particularly in the ephemeral material.

Volumes 1 and 2 mainly concern Frisch’s pre- years and consist mostly of clippings and original photos. Volumes 3-5 are the only ones in this collection concerning Frisch as a major league baseball player. Volumes 6-11 are near-daily logs of Frisch as a major league manager; each book consisting of one season.

Volumes 12-46 consist mainly (but not entirely) of clippings culled from newspapers, [probably by Frisch himself], generally arranged chronologically. Often, there are comments scrawled over the clippings in grease pencil [probably by Frisch]. Relatively few of the clippings are about Frisch. Mainly they concern news of the day; politics; restaurant, music, and book reviews; recipes; basketball and football (both college and professional); hockey; and religion. Also included are brief witticisms, poems, and “words to live by”; also culled from newspapers and magazines. Columnists, both sports- and non-sports-oriented are heavily represented throughout these scrapbooks.

Volume 47 is a 1969 diary with daily notations. Volume 48 is an address book. Volumes 49 – 60 cover 1919 to 1943. These scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, game accounts, box scores and editorials. Volume 61 covers 1958 and volumes 62 to 69 have newspaper clippings, articles covering 1961.

Volume 1, BL-3300.73 1913-1915. This scrapbook is divided evenly between original photos of Frisch’s friends, family, and teams as well as clippings of games Frisch was involved in at the high School level (Fordham Prep).

Highlights include team photos (with Frisch) of Fordham Prep football (1914), basketball (1913, 1914-15), and track (undated).

Clippings include game accounts of Fordham Prep baseball, football, and basketball games as well of Sacred Heart basketball (a semi-professional team), all of which Frisch was a member.

Volume 2, BL-3256.73 1917-1918, 1920-1922. This scrapbook mainly contains newspaper clippings and original photos. The original photos are of Frisch, family, friends, and Fordham University football teams, ca. 1918. The clippings mainly concern Frisch’s activity on Fordham University football, track, and basketball teams. Also included are game accounts and box scores of the Crescent City and New York Athletic Club baseball teams, both of which Frisch was a member, as well as a few random clippings of Frisch with the New York Giants, 1920-1922. The Giants clippings mainly concern rumors of a Frisch-for-Rogers-Hornsby purchase or trade.

Volume 3, BL-3299.73 Newspaper clipping, 1920-1921; Frisch signs with New York Giants; journey to, and at, San Antonio, , 1920; exhibition and regular season game accounts and box scores; Frisch as basketball player; 1921 ; newspaper writing by and Frank Graham; 1920-1921 statistics. This is one of the few scrapbooks in the collection in which the majority of the material concerns Frisch as a player.

Original photos: New York Giants spring training at San Antonio, 1920; includes Art Neff, Mike Gonzales, , Ed Sicking, Lew McCarthy, Ross Young, Art Fletcher, , George Burns, Jess Barnes, , and a close-up of Frisch’s hands. (Frisch had a short finger on his right hand, the result of a partial amputation due to infection.)

Ephemera: cartoons by Robert Ripley, J.W. McGurk, and Gene Mack; original poem and drawing.

Volume 4, BL-3257.73 Newspaper clippings, 1930. Clippings about Frisch and the 1930 St. Louis Cardinals. Included are selected box scores and game accounts, particularly the , cartoons of Frisch by Pete Llanuza, Feg Murray, and Burris Jenkins Jr., columns by Dick Farrington, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams, , and Harry Cross. This is one of the few scrapbooks in the collection in which the majority of clippings concern Frisch as a player.

Non-1930 material includes two columns on Frisch as Pittsburgh Pirates manager.

Ephemeral items include a rubber stamp engraving, and an original photo of an unknown soldier.

Volume 5, BL-3258.73 Although the inside cover of this scrapbook is marked, “1931, 1934, and 1935,” this book consists of newspaper clippings ranging chronologically from 1925 to 1954. It is one of the few scrapbooks in this collection whose clippings are almost entirely about Frisch.

This book is also heavy on columnists including , Joe Williams, Sid Keener, John Kieran, Frank Graham, J. Roy Stockton, , Bill Corum, Fred Lieb, Arthur Daley, John P. Carmichael, Richards Vidmer.

Clips: Frisch as player, manager, broadcaster, hunter, and his relationship with umpires; Dizzy and ; Cobb voted into Hall of Fame; night baseball and ; ; ; Gas House Gang; Bill DeLancey; H.J. “Doc” Weaver; Del Baker; ; , and his partial ownership of Cardinals; ; Frank Paget (President, Hotel Pierre, New York City); Art Devlin obituary; several game accounts, box scores of St.Louis Cardinals, August 1931.

Newspaper series: “Overseas with Frank Frisch,” parts 1-7, n.d; St Louis Post Dispatch series by J. Roy Stockton on ballplayer European theater tour, parts 4-7, February 2-7, 1945.

Complete newspapers and/or sports sections: Havana, Cuba newspapers, March 10-11, 1936 (2); St Louis Post Dispatch, July 7, 9, 1935; St. Louis Star Times, August 19, 1931, July 9, 1935; St. Louis Globe Democrat, August 16, 21, 22, 1931, July 9, 1935, April 30, 1936; Balls and Strikes (official newspaper of the Amateur Softball Association), August 1961; Press and Cleveland News, July 8, 1935 (re: 1935 All-Star Game); Times Union, August 24, 1935; New York Sun, October 3, 1935; New York Times, March 8, 1925; New York Post, April 3, 1935; The , January 4, 1940.

Magazine articles: “McGraw’s Boy,” by Quentin Reynolds, Collier’s June 29, 1935; “That Sixtieth Home ,” by William Barry Furlong, New York Times Magazine, August 20, 1961; “Kid ,” (Joe Garagiola) Sportfolio May 1937.

Newspaper photograph feature: “Gashouse Gang Comes Home,” (25th anniversary), St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 7, 1959; “The Foolish Fancies of .: n.d.

Ephemera: cartoons: by Willard Mullin, Burris Jenkins, Berger, Bob Coyn, Gus Uhlmann, George Brousek, Theo. Couch, Karl Hubenthal, Johnny Walbridge, “Pap”; 1935 All-Star Game Souvenir Program; maps of Alaska, ca. 1935;poems; correspondence; typewritten pages titled “Frisch Dexter” dated April 7, July 5 (no year) re: greatest , Larry Goetz.

Volume 6, BL-3293.73 1940, 1941, 1953, 1954, 1956. A complete log of the 1940 Pittsburgh Pirates season as told in newspaper game accounts (complete), box scores (complete), inning-by inning accounts (partial), newspaper photos, cartoons, columns, and brief, running hand-written accounts by Frisch. Arranged chronologically, the clippings are generally culled from local newspapers where the Pirates were playing that particular day.

Ephemera: Original photo; Frisch at dedication of Fraser Field, Lynn, MA, June 18, 1940; Telegram; to Frisch, September 25, 1941; Frisch hand-written notes for May 23, 1953 Saturday Evening Post article, “They All Can Be Pitched To”; Letter; Maroon Key Society (Fordham University) to Frisch, October 29, 1954; Pamphlet; “Forward Day-by-Day,” Lent 1956.

Volume 7, BL3294.73 1941, 1956, 1962 A near-complete (10 games missing) log of the 1941 Pittsburgh Pirates regular season as told in newspaper game accounts, box scores, newspaper photos, cartoons, columns, and hand-written game comments by Frisch. Mostly arranged chronologically, the articles are mainly culled from the newspapers of the city the Pirates happened to be playing in on that particular day. Features on Frisch and the Pirates are also included.

Baseball columnists included: Grantland Rice, Les Biederman, Chester L. Smith, Harry Keck, John Kieran, Harvey Boyle, Sid Keener, Frank Graham, J. Roy Stockton, Bill Corum, Huck Finnegan, A.B. McGinley.

Ephemera: Birthday card from Betty Jane [Softy]; correspondence, telegram from Bob Lewin, August 3, 1941; book, Two-Year-Olds of 1956, Thoroughbred Racing Association of the US; pamphlet, If You Work While You Get Social Security Payments; program, 9th Annual Carling sports Award Dinner, March 18, 1962; newspaper cartoons by Bob Coyne, Willard Mullin; original photos, team photo, 1922 New York Giants; Frisch at picnic, August 1945; Frisch with Suburban Oil Service representative.

Volume 8, BL-3295.73 1942, 1960. Majority of games played by the 1942 Pittsburgh Pirates (none after August 30) are detailed here by box scores, game accounts, and hand- written comments [by Frisch]. The games are arranged more-or-less in chronological order. Articles are mainly culled from newspapers in the city Pirates played on that particular day.

Baseball columnists included: John Kiran, Les Biederman, John P. McFarlane, John Drebinger, Harry Keck, Chilly Doyle, “Si” Burick, Bob Husted, Sid Keener. Ephemera: correspondence to Frisch from Bob Broeg, January 5, 1960; official scorecard, Phillies, 1942 (cover only); program, Albert Kennedy Roswell, newspaper cartoons by Cy Berger, Bill O’Brien.

Volume 9, BL-3255.73 Box scores/game accounts: from nearly every game played by the Pittsburgh Pirates during the 1944 season. Most game accounts are taken from wire service stories, however several are written by prominent sportswriters such as James P. Dawson, Roscoe McGowan, Hy Turkin, , and Dick Young.

Newspaper column: July 16, 1944 New York Times column by Arthur Daley; “Frankie Frisch Discusses an Old Favorite.”

Original photograph: Frisch and Herbert Hoover, , Old-Timers Day 1954.

Volume 10, BL-3297.73 1950. A near-complete log of the 1950 Chicago Cubs season (5 missing games). Includes box scores, and running, lengthy hand-written accounts [by Frisch]. In addition, the hand-written material includes scouting reports, and opinions on a wide range of baseball-related subjects. The book is arranged by team opposing Chicago.

Ephemera: Cartoons; two of Frisch by Johnny Walbridge, 1950; correspondence; letter to Frisch offering condolences on the death of his father, May 8, 1950; Chicago Cubs News, August 10, 1950; Air Maps of United Air Lines, no date; Players Salaries (Cubs), 1950.

Volume 11, BL-3298.73 A near-complete log of Chicago Cubs games from opening day, April 17 to July 18, 1951. (Frisch was fired from his position as Chicago Cubs manager on July 21.) Only a July 2 doubleheader at Cincinnati is missing from this range. Included are box scores, handwritten accounts [by Frisch], occasional newspaper accounts, and one newspaper photograph. The accounts are arranged more-or-less chronologically, and include hand-written scouting reports and evaluations of both his players as well as the opposition. Also included in this scrapbook is a March 26, 1950 clipping on Frisch from the Chicago Sunday Tribune.

Volume 12, BL-3259.73 Newspaper clippings, October 1953-April 1954.

Material about Frisch: Red Smith, Arthur Daley columns, March 1954; Bill Corum column suggesting manager Leo Durocher appoint Frisch as a coach in Brooklyn; donation of glove used in 1927 to Baseball Hall of Fame; comments on Frisch’s broadcasting; as guest speaker; visit to Cape Cod; , September 2, 1951, “Frank Frisch Handles His Garden Like Ball Club.”

Newspaper photos of Frisch: receiving gifts at wearing Cubs uniform, n.d.; in group representing Philadelphia sportswriters’ 50th anniversary gala.

Baseball columnists featured include: Frank Graham, Joe Williams, Bill Corum, Red Smith, Bob Cooke, Michael Gaven, Arthur Daley, Hugh Bradley, Barney Kremenko, , Jimmy Powers.

Ephemera: original photo of Frisch; correspondence; “thank you” note from niece, no date; congratulations to Frisch on being named manager of Pittsburgh Pirates, October 7, 1939; newspaper; New York Journal American, October 27, 1945; Chicago Cubs 1950 Year Book, pages 1-4, on Frisch; “Block F Dinner Agenda” (and dais seating arrangement), New York Statler-Hilton Hotel, May 16, 1970.

Volume 13, BL-3260.73 Newspaper clippings, April-August 1954.

Material about Frisch: columns by Frank Graham (May, June 1954 and undated), Arthur Daley (May 23, 1954, no date), Red Smith (June 7, 1954), Bob Cooke (August 16, 1954), and a September 1, 1949 clipping, “The Greatness of Frankie Frisch,” Philadelphia Daily News, August 13, 1954.

Newspaper photos of Frisch: with 1934 St. Louis Cardinals; in group photo, New York Herald Tribune, June 9, 1954; running into first base, no date; with actor Jack Warden, no date; appearing in TV comedy, “Screwball,” June 28, 1954.

Baseball columnists featured include: Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Frank Graham, Barney Kremenko, Joe Williams, Jimmy Cannon, Jimmy Powers, Arch Murray, Milton Gross, Bill Corum, , Dan Daniel, Bob Cooke, John Drebinger, Gene Ward, Joseph M. Sheehan.

Ephemera: piano recital program, Manor Club, Pelham Manor NY, June 16, 1954.

Volume 14, BL-3261.73 Newspaper clippings, August-December 1954.

Material about Frisch: New York Sunday News September 5, 1954 feature, “Oh, Those Bases on Bawls,” by Bob Lardine (with photos); Joe King column, “They Had More Fun in Frisch’s Day,” n.d; “Frisch Lavishes Praise on Giants,” October 9, 1954.

Baseball columnists featured include: Roger Kahn, Bob Cooke, Jimmy Cannon, Dan Daniel, Joe Williams, J. Roy Stockton, Frank Graham, Bill Corum, Red Smith, Milton Gross, Arthur Daley, and Jimmy Powers. Other baseball-related clippings include box scores and local game accounts for Yankees, Giants, Dodgers including ; Athletics franchise shift; problems in minor leagues; early rumor of Dodgers’ move to west coast; on pitching (3 parts); on Connie Mack (3rd of three parts); “The Toughest Game I Ever Umpired,” by Charlie Berry.

Ephemera: Bill Gallo cartoon; City Court of New Rochelle Certificate of Service to Frisch (for jury duty), November 16, 1954.

Volume 14a, BL-4087.73 Scouting notebook

Volume 15, BL-3262.73 Newspaper clippings, December 1954-March 1955.

Material about Frisch: “Frisch, Baseball Great, Has TV Show; Writes Stories,” February 25, 1955; Frisch to speak at New Rochelle Little League Awards Dinner; Jimmy Powers column, January 21, 1955; brief clip announcing Kroeger Beer to sponsor Frisch post- game television show; January 1955 Frank Graham column re umpire Bill Stewart retirement; The Sporting News, August 1, 1951, “Frisch Left Fuming By Sudden Dismissal.”

Baseball columnists featured include Red Smith, Arthur Daley, Bill Corum, Max Kase, Bob Cooke, Frank Graham, Joe Williams, Michael Gaven, Dan Daniel, Jimmy Cannon, and Barney Kremenko.

Obituaries: Bill McGowan, .

Other baseball-related clippings include: “Jim Crow Baseball” in Birmingham, AL; new narrowing catcher’s box; spring training box scores and game accounts; “The Toughest Game I Ever Umpired,” by Babe Pinelli.

Newspaper series: Death of minor league baseball in Johnstown, PA 3-part series by Roger Kahn (scrapbook contains parts 1, and 2).

Volume 16, BL-3263.73 Newspaper clippings, March-June 1955.

Material about Frisch: Ernest Lanigan piece, n.d., includes box score of Frisch’s first major league game; Barney Kremenko column, April 1955; Frank Graham on / appearance on Frisch’s post-game television show; “On the Other Side of the Fence,” written by Frisch, n.d. Photos: undated action; group photo of players (including Frisch) to embark on USO tour, 1944.

Baseball columnists featured: Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Michael Gaven, Frank Graham, Joe Williams, Barney Kremenko, Jimmy Powers, Bob Cooke, Til Ferdenzi, Bill Corum.

Other baseball-related clippings include: spring training and regular season box scores and game accounts; first-ball ceremonies involving Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman; ; beanballs; “charting” a game; left vs. right handed percentage theory; trainers of New York City baseball teams; 35th anniversary of Dodgers-Braves 26-inning game.

Reprinted newspaper articles: Johnny Vander Meer’s second consecutive no-hitter, June 16, 1938; Carl Hubbell no-hitter, May 8, 1929.

Obituary: Harrison J. “Doc” Weaver (several articles).

Volume 17, BL-3264.73 Newspaper clippings June-September 1955.

Material about Frisch: news of speaking engagement, Journal News, June 3, 1955; Jimmy Powers column, June 14, 1955; photo and clipping: Yankee Stadium Old Timers Day, July 30, 1955, with fan, no date; photo with fellow Baseball Hall of Fame members and championship boxers, no date.

Baseball columnists featured: Frank Graham, Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Joe Williams, Jimmy Powers, Roger Kahn, Bob Cooke, Dan Daniel, Harold Rosenthal, Bill Corum, Tommy Holmes, John Drebinger.

Reprinted clippings: 1934 All-Star Game, New York Herald Tribune, July 11, 1934 by Richards Vidmer; Day, July 4, 1939 by Rud Rennie, New York Herald Tribune.

Ephemera: New York Times, August 27, 1955, pages 1,2,11,12; fan mail to Mr. and Mrs. Frisch from “Paul” [McLean].

Volume 18, BL-3265.73 Newspaper clippings, September-December 1955.

Material on Frisch: Chester L. Smith column, no date; Max Kase column, September 12, 1955; “Frisch Urges Safety Program,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, November 18, 1955; clips from HIGH LIGHTS magazine; wedding of Kathryn Frisch; Frisch on traffic; newspaper photos of Frisch after speaking engagements (2), with Boys Club youngsters.

Baseball columnists included: Joe King, Arthur Daley, Max Kase, Chester L. Smith, Red Smith, Frank Graham, Joe Williams, Bob Cooke, Bill Corum.

Reprint: clipping on unassisted play in by W.O. McGeehan appearing in October 11, 1920 New York Tribune.

Features: “Dan Daniel’s Golden Years in Baseball,” World Telegram and Sun, September 24, 1955; “Clowns of the Diamond,” by Curly Ogden, Esquire, January 1935.

Ephemera: original photos, Frisch at Suffern High School, May 28, 1955 (2); correspondence to Frisch from Maxon advertising company, September 27, 1959, Sid Keener, Baseball Hall of Fame, October 14, 1955; New York Herald Tribune, August 28, 1955, sports section; unsigned greeting card.

Volume 19, BL-3266.73 Newspaper clippings, December 1955-April 1956.

Material concerning Frisch: columns by Frank Graham (February 16, 1956), Frank Lillich (February 28, 1956), (February 29, 1956), and Jimmy Powers (April 2, 1956); newspaper photo of Frisch swinging a bat, n.d.

Baseball columnists included: Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Frank Graham, Bill Corum, Barney Kremenko, Bob Cooke, Joe Williams, Jack Lang, Jimmy Powers, Michael Gaven, Dan Parker, Til Ferdenzi, Jack O’Brian.

Newspaper series: “History of the Polo Grounds,” by Joe King, New York World- Telegram, February 1956, 5 of [?] parts.

Ephemera: two Willard Mullin cartoons; Christmas card; newspapers; New York Times Week in Review, March 4, 1956, ppgs. 1-2, New York Times Review of 1955 sports, December 25, 1955, New Rochelle Standard-Star, March 19, 1956, New York World- Telegram, March 19, 1956, New York World-Telegram and Sun, Saturday magazine and pages 13-14, March 24, 1956.

Volume 20, BL-3267.73 Newspaper clippings, April-June 1956.

Material about Frisch: Columns by Red Smith (undated), Frank Graham (Frisch on Schenley Hotel, Pittsburgh, undated), and Barney Kremenko (Frisch on lecturing, April 27, 1956); “Frankie Frisch Tests Dick Graham’s Arm,” “Frisch Plugs Era of Tobacco Chewing,” New Rochelle Standard-Star, June 14, 1956; “Frank Frisch Talks At 5th Annual Dinner,” “Con Ed Fetes Sports Award Stars Tonight,” “Old Flash in Top Form at Con Ed Sports Fete,” June 1956.

Baseball columnists include: Dan Daniel, Red Smith, Arthur Daley, Joe Williams, Hugh Bradley, Frank Graham, Bob Cooke, Michael Gaven, Barney Kremenko, Dave Egan.

Other baseball-related clippings: Box scores/game accounts spring training and regular season games; running account of major league batting and pitching leaders; Carl Erskine’s May 12, 1956 no- game; Brooklyn Dodgers first home game in Jersey City, NJ; closing of the Schenley Hotel, Pittsburgh.

Newspaper series: “Inside Baseball for Little Leaguers,” by Mickey McConnell.

Feature articles: “How Smith Picks Them,” by Red Smith, The Sign, April 1956; “How I Catch a Ball Game,” by as told to Milton Gross, Saturday Evening Post, May 26, 1956.

Ephemera: Saturday Evening Post baseball cartoon by Larry Reynold, no date.

Volume 21, BL-3268.73 Newspaper clippings, June-August 1956.

Material about Frisch: White Plains, NY Reporter Dispatch, June 14, 1956 feature on Frisch with attached memo; Mount Vernon, NY Daily Argus, May 4, 1956, “3 Frisch Bros. Divide Father’s $160,946 Estate”; Old Timers Day at Municipal Stadium, Kansas City, June 15, 1956 including Frisch; August 1956 heart attack and recovery; Frank Graham columns June, July (Gashouse Gang); Arthur Daley column, July; John Drebinger column, August. Baseball columnists included: Ernest Mehl, Arthur Daley, Tommy Holmes, Cribari, Red Smith, Bill Corum, Frank Graham, Bob Cooke, John Drebinger, Joe Williams, Joseph M. Sheehan.

Ephemera: News of the Athletics, vol. 1, number 2; 2 envelopes, 1 letter addressed to Frisch from Paul McLean; [handwritten note by Frisch (ca. September 1956) concerning his physical condition].

Volume 22, BL-3269.73 Newspaper clippings, September-October 1956.

Material about Frisch: hospital stay and release, August-September; Toronto Star, September 8, 1956; , August 13, 1956; note in Jack O’Brian column, Ausust 13, 1956; Frank Graham columns, September, October 1956; Newpaper photos: with , , , n.d.; in hospital with Paul McLean visiting, n.d.; at speaking engagement, n.d.; as Pittsburgh manager, 1946.

Baseball columnists included: Red Smith, Jimmy Powers, Arthur Daley, Bill Lauder Jr., Dan Parker, Bill Corum, Tommy Holmes, Joe Williams, Frank Graham, Bob Cooke.

Box scores, game accounts; many clippings of .

Volume 23, BL-3270.73 Clippings, October 1956-January 1957 (scrapbook titled “October 1956 ”).

Material about Frisch: Clippings; New York University newspaper, October 29, 1956, “Frisch Strengthens Violet Track Buds”; unnamed November 1956, offering advice to youngsters; Frank Graham column, December 1956; January 1957, “Frankie’s Back In Form Important Test Passed” (with photo); Newspaper photos; New York Times, December 2, 1956; uncredited, December 1956, December 13, 1956 (with dogs).

Baseball columnists included: Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Frank Graham, Dan Parker, Bob Cooke, Max Kase, Bill Corum, David Condon.

Game accounts, Brooklyn Dodgers tour of Japan, October 1956.

Volume 24, BL-3271.73 Newspaper clippings, January-June 1957.

Material about Frisch: Clippings; New York Evening Journal, January 11, 1936 (with photos); J. Roy Stockton column, January 28, 1957; Red Smith column, no date; White Plains Reporter Dispatch, “Cribari Says” column, May 10, 1957; “Frank Frisch Fires Volley for Good Old Diamond Days,” no date; “’Speaking is No Substitute for Eating,’ Laments Frisch,” Omaha, NE, March 19, 1957; Bob Broeg column, February 10, 1957 (with photos); Sporting News, February 6, February 20, 1957; New York World Telegram, May 24, 1938 (with Willard Mullin cartoon); “Frisch Joins WOR” (and Mutual Radio Network); “Frisch Calls Baseball Train Camps ‘Country Clubs Without Dues,’” “Frisch Shakes His Head Over New-Style Baseball,” , January 25, 1957; Arthur Daley column, February 1957; Rochester Times Union, Matt Jackson column, March 14, 1957; Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Dick Denny column, April 5, 1957; Jimmy Powers columns, no date, April 1957; “The Umpire,” by H.G. Salsinger, April 4, 1957; “Frank Frisch, Pro Baseball Player, Will Be Speaker at Tech Assembly,” April 1957; Feature article; Collier’s, June 29, 1935, “McGraw’s Boy,” by Quentin Reynolds; Newspaper photos; with fellow Hall of Famers at Polo Grounds War Bond Jubilee, 1943; at Old Timers Day, Polo Grounds, 1957; in Giants uniform, 1919; with guns, no date.

Baseball columnists included: Red Smith, J. Roy Stockton, Bob Broeg, Bill Corum, John P. Carmichael, Arthur Daley, Hugh Bradley, Jimmy Cannon, Bob Cooke, Jim Smith, Frank Graham, David Condon, Matt Jackson, Til Ferdenzi, Dick Denny, Dick Young, Milton Gross, Max Kase.

Box scores/game accounts, exhibition, regular season (few).

Volume 25, BL-3273.73 Newspaper clippings, April-July 1957.

Material about Frisch: Clippings: “Suggestion from Frisch: OK Spitter”; “Klem, Frisch Get Tangled in Their Lines”; “Frank Frisch Now Talks Game,” May 1957; “Lane Calls Frisch ‘Inconsistent…Other Things’,”; May 20, 1957; “Martin Will Introduce Frisch Here Tonight”; “Gashouse Buddies Score Another Hit”; Columns; Frank Graham, n.d.; “Reunion by Telephone,” n.d.; Arthur Daley, May 1957; Pat Harmon, May 1957; Bob Cooke, n.d.

Baseball columnists included: Frank Graham, Til Ferdenzi, Leonard Koppett, Milton Gross, Murray Robinson, Jimmy Cannon, Joe Williams, Barney Kremenko, Max Kase, Bob Cooke, Tommy Holmes, Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Pat Harmon, Bill Corum, Sid Gray, David Condon, Richards Vidmer.

Ephemera: [Hand-written Frisch note].

Box scores and game accounts, weekly major league leaders.

Volume 26, BL-3272.73 Newspaper clippings, July 1957-April 1958.

Frisch related clippings; “Frankie Frisch Formula: ‘Do Best at What You Like’,” July 1957; Frank Graham column, September 1957, “Night for Remembering”; “Cribari Says…” column, December 1957.

Original photos: Frisch interviewing Ray Jablonski, Whitlow Wyatt (2 photos).

Ephemera: National League press release, September 24, 1957 with envelope addressed to Frisch.

Baseball columnists included: Joe King, Grantland Rice, Arthur Daley.

Volume 27, BL-3274.73 Newspaper/magazine clippings, July-December 1957.

Material about Frisch: Joe King column, August 7, 1957; “TV ‘Wake’ for the Giants,” September 1957; “Let’s Legalize the ,” by Frank Frisch as told to , Saturday Evening Post, August 10, 1957; “Cribari Says…a Little of This, a Little of That,” no date; “Frankie Frisch Addresses Tarrytown Rotary Club,” November 1957.

Baseball columnists included: Arthur Daley, Bob Cooke, Jimmy Powers, Jimmy Cannon, Len Koppett, Dan Daniel, Joe King, Grantland Rice, W.O. McGeehan, Frank Graham, Red Smith, Rud Rennie, W.B. Hanna, John Kieran, John Drebinger, Gus Steiger, , Dick Young, Harold Rosenthal, Bill Lauder Jr., Bill Seward, David Condon, Milton Gross, Bill Corum, Joe Williams.

Ephemera: Carnegie Hall program, ca. January 1955; Christmas card, no date; letter from Paul [McLean]; Original action photo of Frisch in New York Giants uniform.

Box scores/game accounts, including Hall of Fame game, weekly major league leaders.

Volume 28, BL-3275.73 Newspaper clippings, December 1957-June 1958.

Material about Frisch: Clippings; Boston Globe, December 8, 1957; Jimmy Powers column, January 24, 1958; “Frisch Claims Mays Best of All in Center,” January 1958; “You Can Quote Me,” January 1958; item in Jocko Conlan feature, January 1958; Robert Byrne column, “Old Stars Keep Banter Flying,” January 1958; February 7, 1958 item on Frisch’s Mutual Radio spot; Frisch quoted in Frank Graham column, April 17, 1958; Al Lopez quote on Frisch in Barney Kremenko column, May 1958, Red Smith column, May 11, 1958; “Cribari Says…,” May 1958; Newspaper photos of Frisch at BBWAA dinner, January 1958 (several); Ephemera; Fordham College Alumni Magazine, Spring 1958, Arthur Daley story on Frisch; [hand-written Frisch note, no date].

Baseball-columnists included: Jimmy Powers, Arthur Daley, David Condon, Bill Corum, Red Smith, Joe Williams, Bob Considine, Robert L. Byrnes, Max Kase, Frank Graham, Barney Kremenko, Bob Broeg, Murray Robinson.

Non-Frisch Ephemera: Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1958, p. 1, Sports section pp. 1, 2 (first regular-season major league game played in California); box scores/game accounts, exhibition and regular season games.

Volume 29, BL-3276.73 Newspaper clippings, October 1958-January 1959.

Clippings, Frisch related: “Leaving an Address,” by Grantland Rice, April 1, 1935; “’Dizzy’ Wanted To Pitch Every Game in the Series,” [1935]; “A Few Words From Onkel Franz,” by John Kieran, New York Times, no date; A.B. M’Ginley column, “The Sporting Visa,” [1935]; “The Old Flash Regrets His Vanishing Records,” New York Daily News, [August 1958]; “Frisch Talk to Open Men’s Club Season,” “Frisch to Receive Award,” “Yanks Pitching Won, Frisch Tells Clubmen,” “Fordham Flash Hits at Men’s Club,” [all October 1958]; Frank Graham columns, November 1958, January 1959; “Braves & Roach Can Win—Frisch,” November 21, 1958; “Frankie Frisch to Speak Here,” [December 1958]; “Frisch at 2nd Base on College All-Time,” no date; Paul King column, January 9, 1959.

Baseball columnists include: Grantland Rice, Til Ferdenzi, David Condon, John Kieran, A.B. M’Ginley, Ed O’Neil, John P. Carmichael, Frank Graham, Murray Robinson, Red Smith, Arthur Daley, Joe Williams, Bill Corum, George Sokolsky, Jimmy Powers, Bob Consideine, Bob Cooke, Milton Gross, Max Kase, Bob Broeg, Paul King.

Ephemera, Frisch related: Letters to Frisch from Brown & Bigelow, November 17, 1958; First National City Bank of New York, October 30, 1958; Frank Scott, November 20, 1958; J.S. Johnson, November 5, 1958; Jack Rose, Beth El Synagogue, December 19, 1958; E. Roger Muir, NBC, October 20, 1958; Lawrence A. Walsh S.J., Fordham University (includes Frisch’s college records), October 8, 1958; William Bien, Anheuser- Busch, February 11, 1958; Leavitt J. Pope, WPIX-TV, Christmaas 1958; Frisch’s duplicate operator’s license, expiration date September 30, 1958; Frisch media scripts [ca. 1958]; Fordham College Alumni Magazine, Spring 1958 (with Arthur Daley feature on Frisch, pages missing).

Other ephemera: Program; 4th Annual Grantland Rice Memorial Award Luncheon, October 31, 1958; Holy Cross Tracts Number 6.

Volume 30, BL-3277.73 Newspaper clippings, January-April 1959.

Clippings, Frisch-related: New Rochelle Standard-Star, July 10, 1957; St. Louis Post- Dispatch, February 13, 1959, February 15, 1959, “Frankie Frisch Recalls Tornado of 1927, Year Cards Blew Flag”; Bob Broeg columns (2-both January 1959), “That Old Gang of Mine”; Jack Butler column, no date; “Frisch Wins College Honor,” [February 1, 1959]; “Frisch Once Star in Basketball Too,” [February 1959]; Cincinnati Post and Times-Star, February 17, 1959, “Frisch Raps Slow Games”; “Frisch to Speak at Old Timers Dinner,” March 2, 1959; “You Can’t Beat it,” [March 4, 1959]; “Frisch to Speak at Hedges Affair,” [March 1959]; Sunday Herald, March 15, 1959, portion of clipping; “Hall of Famer Frank Frisch Big Hit in Appearance Before ‘Series’ Club,” March 20, 1959; small item re: Frisch with CBS, March 28, 1959; Arthur Daley column, “Overheard at the Stadium,” [April 1959].

Baseball columnists include: David Condon, Arthur Daley, Jimmy Cannon, Joe Williams, Bob Broeg, Red Smith, Murray Robinson, Til Ferdenzi, Frank Graham, John P. Carmichael, Leonard Koppett, Huck Finigan.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: Original photo, Frisch, February 11, 1959; Correspondence to Frisch; from Jules J. Bues, March 15, 1959; Walter J. Donnelly, January 30, 1959; Miles Gannon (Fordham University), February 6, 1959; Thomas E. Paradine (Coca-Cola, Fordham Alumni), January 28, 1959.

Ephemera, non-Frisch related: Brown Ink, January 1959.

Volume 31, BL-3278.73 Newspaper clippings, April-May 1959.

Clippings, Frisch-related: The Telegram, Toronto, April 20, 1959, “Frankie Slugs Away At Baseball Softies”; Toronto Daily Star, April 29, 1959, “Razor Blades For Charm Bracelets”; Toronto Globe & Mail, April 29, 1959, “Frisch’s Assortment of Stories Holds Record Crowd Enthralled”; Milt Donnel column, Toronto Daily Star, April 29, 1959; Ted Reeve column, The Telegram (Toronto), April 28, 1959; George Dulmage column, The Telegram (Toronto), April 27, 1959; “Hank” O’Donnell column, Waterbury Republican, April 17, 1959; Hugh Brown column, The Evening Republican, April 23, 1959; Scott Young column, Toronto Globe & Mail, May 6, 1959.

Baseball columnists include: David Condon, George Dulmage, Milt Donnel, John P. Carmichael, Ted Reeve, Braven Dyer, Leonard Shecter, Milton Gross, “Hank” O’Donnell, Hugh Brown, Jimmy Cannon, Arthur Daley, Frank Graham, Scott Young, Red Smith, Jimmy Powers.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: Program/menu; Meet the Ball Club Dinner, April 28, 1959 (Frisch guest speaker), 2 copies; Correspondence; from Sid Hueston, Old Timers’ Baseball Association, May 1, 1959; Typed memo; from Evendale Electric Management Association, Cincinnati, OH, re Frisch speaking engagement, no date.

Volume 32, BL-3279.73 Newspaper clippings, May-June 1959, only one directly concerning Frisch.

Clipping, Frisch-related: “Wonderful Year,” no date; The Sporting News, June 24, 1959.

Baseball columnists included: David Condon, Arthur Daley, Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, Leonard Shecter, Joe Williams.

Ephemera, Frisch- related: Correspondence to Frisch; from Robert G. Roten, Elfon Society (General Electric), June 1, 1959; Sid Keener, Baseball Hall of Fame, May 18, 1959; Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., June 10, 1959; Script; Frisch Dexter Show No. 2, June 13, [1959].

Ephemera, non-Frisch related: Newspaper headline (front page); New York World- Telegram, May 27, 1959, “Bucs’ Haddix Loser After 12 Perfect Innings”; Press release; News from SPORT magazine, June 30, [1959]; Box scores, game accounts, assorted.

Volume 33, BL-3280.73 Newspaper clippings, July-October 1959.

Clippings, Frisch-related: “The Gashouse Gang and I,” Saturday Evening Post, July 18, 1959; “Wonderful Year,” [July 1959]; “Frank Frisch to Speak at College Convention,” [August 1959]; “30-Game Winner Dean Should Have Moved to 1st, Says Frisch,” [August 1959]; “Frisch Mans the Mike in LL Regions and WS,” New York Daily News, August 13, 1959; Bob Broeg column, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 1, 1959; Frank Graham columns, “Friend of the Umpires,” [July 1959], “Frank Frisch Speaking,” [September 1959]; Al DeSantis column, September 9, 1959; Bill Gallo cartoon, [August 1959]; group photo at Yankee Stadium Old Timers Day, August 8, 1959 (3).

Baseball columnists: Tommy Holmes, Jimmy Powers, David Condon, Joe Williams, Arthur Daley, Jimmy Cannon, Frank Graham, Harold Rosenthal, Bob Broeg, Bob Considine, Dan Daniel, John Drebinger, Jerry Mitchell, Arthur Richman, Charlie Callahan, Pat Harmon, John P. Carmichael, Bob Addie, Gene Ward, Jim Ogle, Red Smith, Al DeSantis, , Will Connolly, Robert C. Byrnes.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: Correspondence to Frisch; from Tom Healy, nd; Robert Gamble, Maxon Advertising, June 6, 1959; William Sheehan, Dancer Fitzgerald, July 14, August 18, August 24, and September 18, 1959; Albert Leonard, Gillette, July 31, 1959; Congressman Melvin Price, August 8, 1959; L.J. Pope, WPIX-TV, September 8, 1959; Al DeSantis, Schenectady Union-Star, September 9, 1959; Everett S. Lee, September 10, 1959; Herbert S. Simons, Baseball Digest, September 17, 1959; J.G. Taylor Spink, The Sporting News, September 24, 1959; Miscellaneous correspondence about Frisch; Advertising galleys for Saturday Evening Post, July 18, 1959; Script; Frisch-Dexter Show No. 1, August 15,[1959]; Complete issue, Oneonta Star, July 21, 1959.

Volume 34, BL-3281.73 Newspaper clippings, October-December 1959.

Clippings, Frisch-related: The Sporting News, July 10, 1957, July 9, 1958; Frisch quote in Dick Young column, September 19, 1959; “Frankie Frisch To Be Speaker Here Tonight,” nd; “Frisch, 50-Game Veteran, Says Series Never Gets Dull,” “Frisch Here, Claims Rickey Can Make New League Go,” “Frankie Frisch on Rose Program,” “Frankly, Frisch Insists Chisox ‘Not Good Team,’” all [October 1959]; Arthur Daley column re Bob Elliot, [November 1959].

Baseball columnists: Gene Ward, Joe Williams, Jack Laing, Dave Condon, Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon, Arthur Daley, John P. Carmichael, Jimmy Powers, Dick Young, Robert L. Burnes, Milton Gross, Paul Zimmerman, Curley Grieve, Bob Considine.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: Amadee cartoon of 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, autographed by most team members; Correspondence to Frisch from; Reg H. Nichols, Central Park Men’s Club, November 2, 1959; Hetty Ventura, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., February 25, 1958; Fenton Lewis, Trustees Committee for Reoranization of MBS, November 25, 1959; , National League president, June 20, 1950; Rev. John J. Filip, Catholic Youth Organization, March 11, 1959; R.G. Season, New York Rubber Group, October 19, 1959; Jim Carr, Rose Polytechnic Institute, October 15, 1959; Ira Smith, Boeing Airplane Co., October 19, 1959; Correspondence re Frisch; H.Q. Pickett to Jack Laing, October 7, 1959.

Ephemera, non-Frisch related: Los Angeles Examiner, sports section, October 6, 9, 1959.

Volume 35, BL-3282.73 Newspaper clippings, December 1959-February 1960.

Clippings, Frisch-related: “Old Flash Calls ‘Best Clutch Hitter I Ever Saw’,” December 17, [1959]; “Sports in Review,” Staley Employees Cited,” “Once Over Lightly,” all January 22, 1960, Decatur, IL; “Battlers Frisch and Reardon Rematched for Writers’ Party,” small item on two simultaneous Frisch appearances, both clips [January 1960]; newspaper photos (2), [February 1960].

Baseball columnists include: Bob Fallstrom, John P. Carmichael, Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, Jimmy Powers, Arthur Daley, Murray Robinson, Joe Williams, Dan Parker, Lou Smith, Les Biederman, Dick Young, Til Ferdenzi, Barney Kremenko, Jerry Mitchell, Milton Gross, Joe Trimble, John Drebinger, Stanley Woodward.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: correspondence to Frisch from, Del E. Webb Construction Co., December 17, 1959; John Keeshan, Kenyon & Eckhardt Advertising, June 27, 1957; William A. Plunkett, State Automobile Dealers, June 10, 1957; Joe Pollack, BBWAA, July 1, 1960; script, partial and undated (possibly Frisch’s).

Ephemera, non Frisch-related: New York Times, New York Herald Tribune sports sections, December 27, 1959.

Volume 36, BL-3283.73 Newspaper clippings, February-May 1960, 1963.

Clippings, Frisch-related: Jimmy Powers columns (2), [April, May 1960]; Frank Graham column, no date, re: 3B; news photo of Frisch at Old-Timers’ Day, Polo Grounds, June 23, 1963; Knickerbocker News, Albany NY, August 7, 1963, “Cooperstown Quotes”; White Plains Reporter Dispatch, March 7, 1960, “Spring Training”; Illinois State Journal, Springfield, April 7, 1960; “Managing Kept Frisch From 3,000-Hit Club”; “Former Ace Hopes To Maintain 100% Series Attendance,” “New Rochelle’s Frisch Turns R.I. Farmer,” “Fordham Flash Is Non-Stop Talker,” “Flying Frisch Still Sizzles On the Subject of Baseball,” all no date.

Baseball columnists include: John P. Carmichael, Arthur Daley, , Jimmy Cannon, Murray Robinson, Joe Williams, David Condon, Francis Stann, Milton Gross, Red Smith, , Steve Weller, Frank Graham, Curley Grieve, Joe Dietz, Jerry Mitchell, Ernest Mehl, Stanley Woodward, Frank Finch, Dick Young.

Ephemera: correspondence to Frisch from R.F. Henze Jr., John E. Pearson Co., March 15, 1960; National League press release, April 21, 1960; entry blank, Texaco Oil Co. contest; newspapers, New York Daily News, June 28, 1963, New York Daily News, Herald Tribune, Hartford Courant, November 1963 (assassination of John Kennedy).

Volume 37, BL-3284.73 Newspaper clippings, May-June 1960, only two actually about Frisch.

Clippings, Frisch-related: “No Future for Boudreau with Cubs,” by Arthur Daley, 1960; “Marie Torre Reports, ‘Closed-Circuit TV Gets All-Star Baseball Clinic,’” [May 1960].

Baseball columnists include: Chester L. Smith, Harold Kaese, Paul Zimmerman, Dick Peebles, Les Biederman, Doc Greene, Ernest Mehl, Murray Robinson, Jimmy Powers, Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Milton Gross, John P. Carmichael, Shirley Povich, Joe Williams, Joe Dietz, Bob Addie, Dick Young, Leonard Koppett, Til Ferdenzi, C.M. Gibbs, Braven Dyer, Charles Einstein, Frank Finch.

Ephemera: Booklet; “The Law of Libel and Slander,” by Ella Thomas, 1949; Original photographs; Bill McKechnie and at 1934 All-Star Game, photo autographed to Frisch; November 6, 1924, England’s King George V greets and New York Giants players prior to start of game at Stamford Bridge Grounds, London (Frisch was a member of the 1924 Giants).

Volume 38, BL-3285.73 Newspaper clippings, June-August 1960.

Clippings, Frisch-related: Jimmy Powers column, [July 1960]; Frank Graham column; [August 1960]; “’If You Can’t Play Here, You Can’t Play Anywhere,’ Frisch Tells Big Crowd,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 8, 1960. There are also several clippings, news photos, and a cartoon celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the St. Louis Cardinals 1930 National League championship team, August 1960.

Baseball columnists included: Bob Broeg, Leonard Schecter, Milton Gross, Bob Cole, Jerry Mitchell, Pat Harmon, Charles McCabe, Bill Leiser, Jimmy Cannon, Gordon Cobbledick, Stanley Woodward, Dick Young, Arthur Daley, Murray Robinson, Barney Kremenko, Richard Denny, Jimmy Powers, Allen Lewis, John Drebinger, Tommy Holmes, Frank Graham, Leonard Koppett, Dan Daniel.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: Correspondence to Frisch from Advertising Manager, Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., July 11, 1960.

Ephemera, non-Frisch related: Cartoon; Joe Parrish, newspaper reproduction (in color), 1960; Original photograph: Art Fletcher, ca. 1920.

Volume 39, BL-3286.73 Newspaper clippings.

Clippings, Frisch-related: Jimmy Powers columns, September 7, 1960, [September 1960] (2); Frank Graham, Jimmy Cannon columns, [October 1960]; “Frankie Frisch Visited Here,” newspaper photo and caption, [September 1960].

Baseball columnists: Joe Williams, John P. Carmichael, Warren Brown, Red Smith, Jimmy Powers, Jimmy Cannon, Frank Graham, John Drebinger, Arthur Daley.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: correspondence to Frisch, from; Jack Rocco, postmarked October 29, 1960; Sy Berger, Topps Chewing Gum, November 2, 1960; Thomas Sergent (with clippings), October 2, 1960; Max Case, New York Journal American, October 21, 1960.

Ephemera, non-Frisch: brochure; “Go GM [General Motors] in ‘61”; newspapers; John F. Kennedy elected president headlines from New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Herald Tribune, all November 9, 1960; New York Times sports section, September 4, 1960; New York Herald Tribune, forum section, October 2, 1960.

Volume 40, BL-3287.73 Newspaper clippings, November 1960-April 1961.

Clippings, Frisch-related: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 15, 1961, “135 Attend Ball School”; [January 1961], “Cross-Handed His Way Into Baseball,” Jack Harmon column, Pittsburgh Press, January 16-17, 1961, Les Biederman column; New York Daily News, November 6, 1960, Wes Chester column; [December 1960] Jimmy Powers column; [January 1961]Arthur Daley column re Adolfo Luque, Dick Hackenberg column, two newspaper photos of Frisch.

Baseball columnists: Jack Hernon, Les Biederman, Stanley Woodward, Al Abrams, John P. Carmichael, Jimmy Cannon, Murray Robinson, Jimmy Powers, Arthur Daley, Red Smith, David Condon, Milton Gross, Til Ferdenzi, Dick Hackenberg, Joe Williams, Neal Ellis, Bill Kastelz.

Ephemera, Frisch-related: Correspondence to Frisch from; Ty Cobb Christmas card with note from his nurse, postmarked January 3, 1961; Harry Paxton, Saturday Evening Post, September 12, 1960; Lou Schofield, June 14, 1956; Frank R. Thomas, Williams College, May 19, 1959; Stella P. Thater, The 300 Club, September 27, 1960.

Ephemera, non-Frisch related: New York Herald Tribune, January 12, 1961, ppgs 1-10; January 15, 1961, Sports section, January 19, 1961, ppgs. 1-18.

Volume 41, BL-3288.73 Newspaper clippings, November 1961-February 1962.

Clippings, Frisch-related: “Try & Stop Me,” by Bennett Cerf; Lou O’Neill column; “Frisch Tells About Stars,” all [November 1961]; “Flickering Flash,” [February 1962]; “525 ‘Hot Stovers’ Regaled By Frisch, Richardson,” The Daily Journal, Elizabeth NJ, January 17, 1962; Daily Journal columns January 16, 18, 1962; “Capacity Turnout of 500 Due At ‘Stove’ Dinner Tomorrow”; group photos (2) including Frisch commemorating “Salute to Champions Day,” January 18, 1962; photo of Frisch with oil company representative, no date.

Baseball columnists include: Bill Furlong, David Condon, Jimmy Cannon, Murray Robinson, Lou O’Neill, Frank Graham, Arthur Daley, Jimmy Powers, Red Smith, Dick Young, John P. Carmichael, Til Ferdenzi.

Ephemera: correspondence to Frisch from George Cron, Union City [NJ] Baseball Association, January 19, 1962; Gordon Moodie, IBM, October 30, 1961; script describing baseball in Philadelphia; New York Herald Tribune, Sports Annual Preview, December 24, 1961.

Volume 42, BL-3289.73 Newspaper clippings, August-December 1962.

Clippings, Frisch-related: Frisch’s autobiography, Frank Frisch: The Fordham Flash, co- written with J. Roy Stockton, was released at this time. Many book reviews are included in this scrapbook. Other Frisch-related clippings include Jack O’Brian column in Pictorial TView, July 29, 1962; Jimmy Powers column, July 15, 1962; Chester L. Smith column, Pittsburgh Press, July 23, 1962; Frank Graham, Arthur Daley, Harold Rich columns, all no date; The Sun, Westerly RI, June 7, 1962, “Sixteen Join Cottrell Quarter Century Club”; “Frisch Says ‘Hitting Is Everything’ Today,” “Frank Frisch of Big League Fame Speaker for ‘Y’ Dinner,” “Frank Frisch to Be Y Golf Loop Guest,” ‘Old Timers Hear Flash,” all no date; newspapers photos captioned “Honor Golf League Champs” and “Cooperstown Clan,” both no dates.

Baseball columnists included: Jack O’Brian, Bill Furlong, Leo Coughlin, Jimmy Powers, Forrest P. Kyle, Arthur Daley, John Drebinger, Frank Graham, Jack Hernon, John P. Carmichael, Earl Yost, Harold Rich, Chester L. Smith, Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon, David Condon.

Ephemera: programs: Old Timers’ Day, July 28, 1962, Larchmont Men’s Club Annual Sports Night Program, February 23, [1962]; booklet: A Dictionary of Biblical Allusions; correspondence to Frisch from Sid Keener, Baseball Hall of Fame, August 28, 1962; Naomi Burton, Doubleday & Co. (with clipping), August 9, 1962; Sy Berger, Topps Chewing Gum, November 27, 1962; from Sid Keener to Helen Crosby, Doubleday & Co., August 28, 1962; press release from Baseball Hall of Fame re Frisch’s autobiography, no date; Freeman’s Journal, Cooperstown, NY, August 22, 1962, ppgs. 1-2.

Volume 43, BL-3290.73 Newspaper clippings, February-June 1963. ( This scrapbook contains less NYC clippings for two reasons: Frisch had moved from New Rochelle NY to Rhode Island by this time, also a newspaper strike ceased publication of NYC newspapers from December 1962-April 1963.)

Clippings, Frisch-related: Clearwater Sun, May 18, 1962, “Locals to Open Five-Game Series”; Frisch newspaper advertisement for Hill & Hill Bourbon; book review, Frisch’s autobiography, May 11, 1963; columns by Red Smith, no date, John P. Carmichael, no date and June 6, 1963; “Battin’ the Breeze with Ray Keyes,” no date; The Standard-Star, New Rochelle, March 14, 1963, “’Fordham Flash’ Turns 65, Signs For SS Benefits”; Tampa Tribune, May 20, 1962, Tom McEwen column; “Chiribo School Athletes Are Honored at Dinner,” no date; story and photos, Old-Timers’ Day, Polo Grounds, 1963.

Baseball columnists included: Red Smith, John P. Carmichael, Jimmy Cannon, David Condon, Arthur Daley, Tom McEwan, Dick Young, Leonard Shecter, Pat Bolduc, Jerry Trecker, Frank Keyes, Bill Lee. Ephemera: New York Daily News, July 2,1963.

Volume 44, BL-3291.73 newspaper clippings, June-October 1963.

Clippings, Frisch-related: The Sun, Waverly RI, June 20, 1963, “Chariho’s Championship Ball Clubs Saluted”; Dick Young column, June 23, 1963; August 8, 1963, “Fordham Flash Is Non-Stop Talker”; no date, “Frisch Honors Falls Stickers”; [October 1963], “Former Ace Hopes to Maintain 100% Series Attendance” and “Old Knee Injury Will Keep Frisch at Home.”

Baseball columnists included: Dick Young, Arthur Daley, Tommy Holmes, , Bill Condon, John Drebinger, Bill Lee, Red Smith.

Ephemera: correspondence to Frisch from “O.,” August 6, 1963; Dat and Bro Rice, postcard from Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas postmarked October 17, 1963; Howard E. Hill, W. Coston Leigh Inc., November 1, 1963; Alfred M. Lefevre, Pross, Smith, Halpern and Lefevre, August 7, 1962 and June 21, 1963; Helen Crosby, Doubleday and Co., August 17, 1962; Jack Scaragella, June 12, 1963; program, Connie Mack’s Testimonial Luncheon Honoring Baseball’s Greatest Lineup, 1900-1950, July 7, 1952; original photos, Bill Gallo cartoon re Frisch broadcasting Little League game, Frisch with Suburban Oil Service Co. driver; original pencil drawings (2) of Frisch deer hunting by Joe Meilleur; receipts from Adley Express Co., New Haven Railroad; miscellaneous notes; The Swiss Colony Pastry Guide/Cheese Guide; New York Herald Tribune, November 14, 1963, Section 1.

Volume 44a, BL-4088.73 1968 diary

Volume 45, BL-3292.73 Newspaper clippings, January-April 1969.

Clippings, Frisch-related: John Wentworth column, [January 1969]; Jack Griffin column, March 11, 1969; Arthur Daley column, May 20, 1969; Jack Herman of Baseball Writers of America dinner, January 28, 1969; “Frankie Frisch predicts that Major League Baseball will be a success in Montreal,” La Presse, March 3, 1969 (original in French- with translation); “Local Fans Set for Trip to Fenway Park,” [May 1969]; “190 Friends Fete Breslin on Birthday,” The Record, March 21, 1969; “Sports Hall of Fame Inducts Initial Members,” Norwich [CT] Bulletin, March 23, 1969; “Frank Frisch To Address Rotary Tonight,” [January 1969]; “Old Flash Still Has Lots of Zip,” Neal Russo, January 27, 1969; “Baseball Needs Another Babe Ruth , Frisch Says,” by Jack Herman, no date; “Frank Frisch to Speak at RIJC Award Fete,” [April 1969]; newsphotos (2), “B’nai B’rith Honors Hall of Famers.”

Baseball columnists included: Leonard Koppett, Maury Allen, Bob Broeg, Arthur Daley, Jimmy Cannon, Harold Kaese, Melvin Durslag, Larry Clafin, Tommy Shulman, Dick Young, Jack Griffin, Milton Gross, Red Smith, Tim Horgan, John Wentworth, Robert Lipsyte.

Ephemera: magazines; Time, January 24, April 11, 1969; Newsweek, January 27, 1969; newspapers; New York Times Week in Review, Providence Journal editorial section, both January 19, 1969; New York Daily News, January 11, 21, March 29, 1969; correspondence to Frisch from Percy T. Phillips, DDS, no date; Earl Carey, South Windsor, CT Little League, January 27, 1969; Hall of Fame photo of Frisch autographed; business card; Herman Osterhus, Executive Vice President, Peoples Bank of South Bergen County.

Volume 46, BL-3296.73 Marked “a little bit of everything,” this scrapbook is completely composed of newspaper clippings, cartoons, and magazine articles, the chronology varying widely. Many of the clippings are undated. The majority of material here consists of gags, yarns, inspirational prose, wise sayings, political news, and political speeches. Interspersed are columns by the likes of Frank Graham, Arthur Daley, Walter Lippman, Red Smith, Bill Corum, Joe Williams, and Joseph Alsop. Frisch-related material here includes (all undated except where noted):

Arthur Daley column (page 42); untitled (p. 71); game account, September 17, 1926 (p. 86); “Frisch a Very Sick Man, Physician Says, Uncertain When He Will Rejoin Giants” (p. 87); “Frisch, After 2,311 Games, Retires as Active Player” (p. 89); Bob Considine column (p.92); Frank Graham column (p. 106); “Frank Frisch, Baseball Immortal, Speaks For Banquet To Honor Lafayette Baseball Team,” Phillipsburg NJ, September 3, 1953; feature article, “Frisch: Baseball’s Happy Worrier,” Catholic Digest, September 1950 (separate); newspaper photos of Frisch with Mrs. Frisch (p. 88), in motorcade (91); cartoon by Frank Lanning, February 1, 1953.

Baseball columnists included: Red Smith, Frank Graham, Arthur Daley, Harold Rosenthal, Bob Considine, Bill Corum, Joe Williams, Max Kase.

Ephemera: Notes for Frisch’s autobiography, marked “Book,” and “Made Manager of the Cardinals.”

Volume 47, BL-4089.73 1969 diary

Volume 48, BL-4086.73 Address book

Volume 49, BL-1407.68 A half-full scrapbook of clippings and newspaper photos concentrating on Frisch’s trip to Cuba with the New York Giants during the winter of 1920; a trip which featured Babe Ruth playing for the Giants. Box scores and some inning-by-inning accounts of these games are included. Many of these clippings are in Spanish. Baseball columnists included: Joe Vila, Grantland Rice.

Volume 50, BL-1408.68 Scrapbook nearly equally divided between original photographs and newspaper clippings and photographs, 1919-1920; virtually all Frisch-related. Concentration here is on Frisch’s final year at Fordham University and first year with New York Giants.

Baseball columnists included: Joe Vila, V. Treanor, Walter St. Denis, Damon Runyon.

Ephemera: Many original photos of Frisch, college teammates, friends and relatives; hand-written notes by Frisch.

Volume 51, BL-1409.68 Newspaper clippings and photographs, nearly all Frisch-related, 1922. Extensive coverage given to the 1922 World Series, Frisch’s marriage to Ada Lucy, early Frisch radio appearances, and Babe Ruth’s All-Star team (which Frisch was selected at second base). Also includes some box scores and game accounts, including some exhibition games.

Baseball columnists included: Ed Sullivan, Grantland Rice, Joe Villa, “Bugs” Baer.

Ephemera: Original photographs (3), Frisch batting at Polo Grounds, 1921 (glued to scrapbook covers); newspaper cartoons by Bud Counihan and Thornton Fisher, among others (uncredited); Frisch on cover (in color), Baseball magazine, February 1922.

Volume 52, BL-1410.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, and cartoons, nearly all Frisch- and /or New York Giants-related, 1923. Material covers spring training, regular season (some box scores and game accounts), and .

Baseball columnists included: Warren Brown, Joe Vila, Ford Frick.

Ephemera: Newspaper cartons drawn by Bud Counihan, Thornton Fisher, Ed Hughes, Quin Hall, Kessler, Ripley, Burris Jenkins Jr., Dick Dorgan; newspaper advertisement: Frisch endorsing Chiclets chewing gum; pamphlet; “Why Does This Have to Happen to Me?”

Volume 53, BL-1412.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons, 1924, most Frisch-related. Topics include Frisch’s salary, captaincy of New York Giants, spring training, finger injury, World Series, and European tour (New York Giants and Chicago White Sox).

Baseball columnists included: Grantland Rice, W.O. McGeehan, Ed Sullivan, Morgan Blake.

Ephemera: Original photographs; team photo, 1924 New York Giants, Giants and Chicago White Sox on 1924 European tour, Mr. & Mrs. Frisch with three other couples en route to Europe; newspaper cartons by Al Demaree, Dick Dorgan, Briggs, Ripley, Burris Jenkins Jr., Paprocki; Mutual Memorandum sheets (blank); postcard addressed to Frisch re re-subscription to The Sporting News; hand-written Frisch memo.

Volume 54, BL-1411.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons; New York Giants and Chicago White Sox tour of Europe, 1924. This scrapbook contains material from British and French newspapers, offering a European perspective on the game of baseball in 1924. Clippings here are not necessarily about Frisch, although he was on the tour.

Ephemera: Original photographs (2); Frisch on board Leviathan; original cartoon drawing to Mr. & Mrs. Frisch signed by Willie Solar; autographs of players on tour, crew of Leviathan; pamphlet about the SS Leviathan; hand-written memos by Frisch; correspondence from Frisch to “Alan,” no date, typewritten but signed by Frisch; photocopies; clippings, scorecard from tour, British driver’s license issued to Edward O’Leary.

Volume 55, BL-1413.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons, 1927-1929. This scrapbook contains material concerning Frisch’s first three seasons with St. Louis Cardinals. Topics include a comparison between Frisch and Rogers Hornsby (who were traded for each other) and fielding records established by Frisch during these seasons.

Baseball columnists included: Grantland Rice, Sid Keener, Warren Brown, Fred Lieb, and Ed Sullivan.

Ephemera: Correspondence to Frisch from (June 30, 1927) and Branch Rickey (October 4, 1927); type-written untitled pieces written by Frisch (2) on origins of the “Gashouse Gang” and February 4, 1961; newspaper cartoons; “Smitty” carton featuring Frisch, cartoons drawn by Quill, Pete Williams, Feg Murray, Gus Edson.

Volume 56, BL-1414.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons following Frisch and the St. Louis Cardinals through the 1931 season. This volume includes coverage of the as well as barnstorming tour of Japan. A Frisch clipping from 1956 is also included in this volume.

Baseball columnists: Harry Cross, Sid Keener, Frank Y. Grayson, M.C. (Fish) Salmon, “Wray,” Bill Corum, Joe Vila, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams, Grantland Rice, Fred Lieb, John Drebinger.

Original photograph: Frisch (action), undated.

Menu: St.Louis Cardinals special train, Railroad, New York to St.Louis dining car.

Volume 51, BL-1415.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons, 1932-1935, most concern Frisch and the St. Louis Cardinals. Featured topics in this volume include the 1933 All-Star Game, Frisch’s appointment as Cardinals manager, and the death of John McGraw. Baseball columnists: John Kieran, Sid Keener, Bill Corum, Warren Brown, Dan Daniel, Jack Kofoed.

Correspondence: Two from BBWAA (April 28, July 17, 1932) notifying Frisch of his selection as National League Most Valuable Player, 1931; congratulatory telegrams on Frisch’s appointment as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Volume 58, BL-1416.68 Newspaper clippings, photographs, cartoons, 1934-1935. This scrapbook concentrates on the 1934 season, a World Championship season for Frisch and the St.Louis Cardinals. Featured are the 1934 All-Star Game and World Series. One clipping is in Spanish.

Baseball columnists: Frank Graham, Sid Keener, John Kieran, Bill Corum, Joe Williams, Chester L. Smith, Westbrook Pegler.

Ephemera: congratulatory telegrams; hand-written memos [by Frisch]; parody song lyrics.

Volume 59, BL-1417.68 Newspaper box scores and headlines for a majority of the exhibition and regular season games of the 1936 St. Louis Cardinals. Included are box scores for four exhibition games played in Havana, Cuba vs. Almendares. Also included are Frisch-related newspaper columns by Harvey Boyle and John Kiernan and a Frisch- related newspaper cartoon by Amadee Wohlschlaeger.

Volume 60, BL-1406.68 This book contains box scores and games accounts of every regular-season Pittsburgh Pirates game, one (May 5 game – only a line score), of the 1943 season, culled from New York City newspapers. The majority of the accounts are wire service reports although some are written by such esteemed sportswriters as Dick Young, Jack Smith, John Drebinger, Hy Turkin, and Roscoe McGowan.

Ephemera: Hand-written note by Frisch of game account for May 16, 1943

Volume 61, BL-1418.68 Newspaper clippings covering 1958.

Volume 62, BL-1419.68 Clippings, 1943, February-June 1961

Frisch-related clippings: “Pirates Sign Frankie Frisch for 1944,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, September 14, 1943; Harvey J. Boyle, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, September 14, 1943; “Frisch Needles Cards On ‘Country Club’ Life, They Reply With Zip,” St. Louis Post- Dispatch, March 3, 1961; “Frisch in Old Form: Knights Honor Burnes, Broeg,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 14, 1961; “Where Have They Been Hiding Shortstop Like Kasko?—Frisch,” NEA Sports Green, June 21,1961; “Flashbacks To McGraw By ‘The Flash’,” John P. Carmichael column, undated; Dan Parker column, March 3, 1961; captioned newspaper photographs, St. Petersburg Times, March 4, 1961 and undated.

Baseball columnists: Grantland Rice, Harvey J. Boyle, Bob Broeg, Norman Ross, Chester L. Smith, Arthur Daley, David Condon, John Drebinger, Stanley Woodward, John P. Carmichael, Ralph Warner, Jimmy Cannon, Dan Parker, Red Smith.

Ephemera: “News from Sport,” March 30, 1961, press releases (2); correspondence to Frisch from Doubleday and Co., February 20, 1961, Hercules Powder Co., February 22, 1961; program, 15th Annual Governor’s Baseball Dinner, March 8, 1961; miscellaneous memos (2).

Volume 63, BL-1420.68 Clippings, January, March, April-May 1961

Frisch-related clippings: John P. Carmichael column, January 14, 1961; captioned photograph, undated; “Frankie Frisch: A Million Stories,” April 18, 1961, “’Same All Over’ Says Frankie Frisch,” April 19, 1961, both from Kingston Whig-Standard; Jack Matheson column, May 4, 1961, Winnipeg Tribune; Maurice Smith column, May 1961.

Baseball columnists: Red Smith, Jimmy Powers, Arthur Daley, John P. Carmichael, Mel Durslag, Frank Graham, Hal Walker, Maurice Smith, Jack Matheson.

Volume 64, BL-1421.68 Clippings, May-June 1961. There are no articles on Frisch himself in this scrapbook.

Baseball columnists: Arthur Daley, Red Smith, Leonard Shecter, Dick Young, Murray Robinson, Howard Cossell.

Volume 65, BL-1422.68 Clippings, June-July 1961.

Frisch-related clippings: “’Knights’ Honor Burnes, Broeg,” “Knights Hear Busch and Frisch Discuss Birds’ ‘Desperate’ Plight,” both June 14, 1961; Bob Broeg, Jimmy Powers columns, both undated.

Baseball columnists: Red Smith, Bob Broeg, Arthur Daley, Dick Young, Shirley Povich, Jimmy Powers, Bob Addie, Jack Murphy, Murray Robinson, Jimmy Cannon, Gordon Cobbledick.

Original photograph: Polo Grounds, just prior to Game 1 of the , October 3.

Volume 66, BL-1423.68 Clippings, July 1961

Frisch-related clippings: “Frisch Favorite Target of Stengel’s Ribald Ribbing,” Ernest Lanigan overview of Frisch, both undated; newspaper photos (2) of Frisch re work for Arthritis, Rheumatism Foundation.

Baseball columnists: Arthur Daley, Dick Young, Frank Graham, Jimmy Cannon, Stanley Woodward, John Drebinger, Milton Gross, Jimmy Powers.

Epemera: correspondence to Frisch from Branch Rickey, July 5, 1961; August Busch, July 19, 1961; poem, “Getting Old” by Joe Melville with handwritten note to Frisch from Melville, April 24, 1952.

Volume 67, BL-1424.68 Clippings, August 1961

Frisch-related clippings: Bob Broeg column; “Frisch Barges In under Own Power”; both undated.

Baseball columnists: Frank Graham, Jimmy Cannon, Til Ferdenzi, John Drebinger, Red Smith, Jimmy Powers, Barney Kremenko, Bob Addie, Bob Broeg.

Ephemera: correspondence; Red Smith to Frisch, June 29, 1961.

Volume 68, BL-1425.68 Clippings, August-September 1961

Frisch-related clippings: Ed Brandt column, Virginian-Pilot, August 29, 1961; “Frisch Filibuster Sets Club Record,” August 1961; “Frisch Says M Boys Saved Dull AL Race,” The Oregonian, August 31, 1961; Dan Parker column, September 7, 1961; Red Smith column, “Happy Birthday”; “Frisch Entrances Sports Clubbers”; “Frisch to Tell of Game’s Greats”; “Gashouse Gang Star Frisch Here Monday”; “Clubmen to Hear Frisch”; all undated.

Baseball columnists: Jimmy Powers, Ed Brandt, Arthur Daley, Dan Parker, Dan Daniel, Bob Considine, Red Smith, Jimmy Cannon, Shirley Povich, Joe Williams, Frank Graham, Jim Murray.

Ephemera: correspondence to Frisch re speaking engagements, August 29, September 8, September 12, 1961; Balls and Strikes, September 1961; blank index tabs, labels.

Volume 69, BL-1426.68 Clippings, September-October 1961.

Frisch-related clippings: Willie Klein column, Newark Star-Ledger, September 10, 1961; Arthur Daley column, “Frankie Frisch Guest Speaker Tuesday at Meeting of Knife and Fork Club,” “Dean Made Batters ‘Sit Down’—Frisch,” “Baseball Star to Speak to City Group,” “Frank Frisch Speaks at Quarterback Club,” all undated.

Baseball columnists: David Condon, Arthur Daley, John P. Carmichael, Willie Klein, Jimmy Cannon, Jim Ogle, Red Smith, Dick Young, Jimmy Powers, Jim Bishop, Dan Daniel, Joe Williams, Murray Robinson.