Frankie Frisch played for the New York Giants and St Louis Cardinals.
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Frankie Frisch managed the Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs.
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Frankie Frisch is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the St Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum.
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Frankie Frisch is tied with Yogi Berra for most World Series doubles at 10 and holds the record for the most World Series hits at 58 for a player who never played for the New York Yankees, exceeded only by Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle.
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Frankie Frisch went on to Fordham University where he continued to star in four sports: baseball, football, basketball and track.
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In 1919, Frankie Frisch left Fordham to sign with the New York Giants of the National League, moving directly to the majors without playing in the minor leagues.
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Frankie Frisch made an immediate impact, finishing third in the NL in stolen bases and seventh in RBI in 1920, his first full season.
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Frankie Frisch was an expert fielder and a skilled base-runner.
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Frankie Frisch is tied with Pablo Sandoval for the franchise post-season multi-hit games record of 15.
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Frankie Frisch was the driving force of the "Gashouse Gang", the nickname for the Cardinals clubs of the early 1930s, which were built around him to reflect his no-holds-barred approach.
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The Cardinals had won only one pennant before Frankie Frisch joined the team; the Giants would win the pennant only once in Frankie Frisch's nine seasons as the Cards' regular second baseman.
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Frankie Frisch became player-manager of the Cardinals in 1933, and was named to the NL's first three All-Star teams from 1933 to 1935.
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Frankie Frisch was difficult to strike out, fanning only 272 times in 9,112 at-bats, or once every 33.
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Frankie Frisch's hit total stood as the record for switch-hitters until Pete Rose surpassed it in 1977.
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Frankie Frisch had managerial stints with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs, but without the success he had in St Louis.
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Frankie Frisch spent the first two months of the 1949 season as a New York Giants' coach, working under his old double-play partner, Leo Durocher, before leaving June 14 to replace Charlie Grimm as manager of the Cubs.
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Frankie Frisch worked for several years as a baseball color commentator on radio and television.
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From 1959 to 1961, Frankie Frisch teamed with Jack Whitaker to form the backup crew for Saturday Game of the Week coverage on CBS.
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Frankie Frisch had been returning to Rhode Island from the meeting of the Veterans Committee in Florida when he lost control of his car.
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Frankie Frisch is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.
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Frankie Frisch is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:.
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Frankie Frisch had two hounds named Flash and Patches who kept him company.
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Frankie Frisch eventually moved to Charlestown, Rhode Island, devoting himself mainly to his interests in gardening and classical music.
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