Frank Lucchesi/pagetext
From SABR Encyclopedia
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Career highlights
Personal
- Was residing in San Francisco, California in 1949 and 1955.
- Self-identified as being of Italian ancestry
- Married in 1955.
Outside of baseball
- Worked as a grocery clerk in the off-season in 1949.
- Served in the U.S. Army for one year
- Was a bartender during the off-season in 1955.
- Served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years.
- Refereed basketball games for charity in the winter as a hobby as of 1955.
Pre-professional career
- Participated in baseball, track, football, and basketball at Galileo High School in San Francisco, graduated in 1945. He was chosen to play in the Esquire Boys Game.
- Played in the first Esquire All-American baseball game in 1944.
Contract signing
- Was signed to his first contract by Joe Devine of the New York Yankees.
Sources
- 1949 California League Gold Book.
- 1955 Pioneer League Index (Fourth Edition).
- 1977 Texas Rangers Organizational Record Book.