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| - | == Profile ==
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| - | === Personal ===
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| - | * Resided in Sacramento, California in 1952.
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| - | * Self-identified as being of English-Danish ancestry.
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| - | * Worked four innings in his first game for Midland in the 1938 West Texas-New Mexico League, losing 5-2.
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| - | * Helping Spokane win the Western International League title on the last day of the 1948 season was his greatest thrill; the club had been in the second division in mid-August, then won 45 of its last 56 games with Frank tossing the pennant-clincher.
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| - | === Pre-professional career ===
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| - | * Attended Elk Grove, California High School.
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| - | * Was on the all-star diamond team for three years.
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| - | === Achievements ===
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| - | * Set a new Western International League record whe he pitched 300 innings in 1948.
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| - | * Led the 1948 Western International League in complete games with 30.
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| - | === Outside of baseball ===
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| - | * Was a truck driver during the off-season in 1952.
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| - | * Served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, 1943-1945.
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| - | * His ship was sunk off the coast of Samoa and Frank and his buddies were in the water 48 hours before being rescued.
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| - | === Career notes ===
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| - | * Served as fill in 2nd base umpire for 1st game of twi-night doubleheader between Sacramento and Portland on July 21, 1952.{{footnote-newspaper | title= Sacramento-Portland Boxscore July 21, 1952 | newspaper= The Sporting News| year= 1952| month= 08| day= 06| pages= 23| last= | first= | url= }}
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| - | == Sources ==
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| - | * {{cite-book | title=1952 Pacific Coast League Thumbnail Sketches}}
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