Ford Frick biography
Ford Frick, in full Ford Christopher Frick, (born Dec. 19, 1894, Wawaka, Ind., U.S.—died April 8, 1978, Bronxville, N.Y., U.S.), American baseball journalist and government who was instrumental within the founding of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Between 1923 and 1934, Frick lined the New York Yankees for the New York Evening Journal, and in 1930 he additionally started to work as a radio announcer. In 1934 he was elected president of the National League and served in that capability till 1951. One of his first acts as president was to counsel including a Hall of Fame to a proposed nationwide baseball museum. Frick’s modified proposal proved to be extraordinarily fashionable amongst baseball executives and writers, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum opened in 1939. Another hallmark of Frick’s tenure as National League president occurred in 1947 when Jackie Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers and broke main league baseball’s color barrier. Frick adamantly supported Robinson and the integration of baseball.
In 1951 Frick turned the third commissioner of baseball and served two seven-year phrases earlier than retiring in 1965. As commissioner, he permitted the primary franchise relocations in 50 years: the Boston Braves to Milwaukee in 1953, the St. Louis Browns to Baltimore in 1954, and the Philadelphia Athletics to Kansas City in 1955. In 1958 the motion continued with the Brooklyn Dodgers going to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco. Frick additionally oversaw the enlargement of the main leagues with new franchises within the early Nineteen Sixties: American League groups had been awarded to Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles in 1961 and National League groups to New York and Houston in 1962. As commissioner, Frick can be remembered for his insistence {that a} distinction be made between Babe Ruth’s single-season report of 60 dwelling runs in a 154-game season and Roger Maris’s report of 61 dwelling runs in a 162-game season. Frick was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1970.