Frank Colman
Frank Lloyd Colman (March 2, 1918 – February 19, 1983), was a Canadian Major League Baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees.
The son of Frederick and Harriet Colman who operated a shoe store on Hamilton Road in London, Ontario, Colman joined the London Majors of the senior Intercounty Baseball League in the mid-1930s (winning the batting title as a pitcher, Most Valuable Player award and a championship in 1936), the Pittsburgh Pirates as a first-baseman-outfielder from 1942 to 1946 and the New York Yankees as an outfielder in 1946 and 1947, where he roomed with the young Yankee catcher Yogi Berra.
Colman batted and threw left, was six-feet tall and weighed 188 pounds. His debut in Major League Baseball was on September 12, 1942, and his final game in the big leagues was on August 3, 1947.
Read more about Frank Colman: With The 1947 Yankees, Colman Returns To His Hometown, Purchases The London Majors, Colman, Co-founder of The Eager Beaver Baseball Association
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