I also picked up this 1933 AP photo of Frank recently that ran during the streak and an auto.
A part of his story that I love is that during the offseason, he worked in my hometown for the first gas company in Indiana, then full time after he retired from baseball. When he died of a heart attack while mowing the lawn in 1968 (those damn old rotary mowers), the company started a scholarship in his name for high school baseball players.
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