Frankie Crosetti

Shortstop

Born: October 4, 1910
San Francisco, California

Died: February 11, 2002 (aged 91)

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

April 12, 1932, for the New York Yankees

Last MLB appearance

October 3, 1948, for the New York Yankees

MLB statistics

Batting average

.245

Hits

1,541

Runs batted in

649

Teams

As player

New York Yankees (1932–1948)

As coach

Career highlights and awards

2× All-Star (1936, 1939)
17× World Series champion (1932, 1936–1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949–1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962)
AL stolen base leader (1938)

As player

As coach

Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti (October 4, 1910 – February 11, 2002) was an American baseball shortstop. Nicknamed "The Crow", he spent his entire seventeen-year Major League Baseball playing career with the New York Yankees before becoming a coach with the franchise for an additional twenty seasons. As a player and third base coach for the Yankees, Crosetti was part of seventeen World Championship teams and 23 World Series participants overall, from 1932 to 1964, the most of any individual.

Crosetti was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in North Beach, which was something of a hotbed of Italian-American talent on the baseball field during the 1920s & 1930s (Tony Lazzeri, Charlie Silvera & the DiMaggio brothers also hail from the same neighborhood). Before joining the Yankees, Crosetti played four seasons with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League.

Crosetti joined the Yankees in 1932, and batted .241 with five home runs and 57 runs batted in at the bottom of the Yankees' batting order. He was part of a World Series Championship his first year in the big leagues as the Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series two days shy of Crosetti's 22nd birthday.

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