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  Harry Frazee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frazee had been the first owner in the league's history who hadn't been essentially handpicked by Johnson, and Johnson tried on numerous occasions to cancel the franchise after Frazee bought the team.
Frazee, Ruppert and Huston quickly cut a deal, and Ruth became the property of the Yankees on December 26, 1919.
Frazee was upset over the holdout because he had given Ruth bonuses after both the 1918 and 1919 seasons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Frazee   (1701 words)

  
 Wild About Harry - MSN Encarta
In 1920 Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth's contract to the Yankees.
Harry Blackmun, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, began his tenure as a conservative member of the Court, but by the time he retired in 1994 he had become one of the Court's biggest civil liberties advocates.
Harry Wright*, known as the Father of Baseball, was the innovator of pregame batting practice, hand signals, and the double steal.
encarta.msn.com /list_wildaboutharry/Wild_About_Harry_(Potter_et_al).html   (317 words)

  
 For Harry Frazee III, 'The Curse' has different meaning
Harry Frazee III holds a copy of "Red Sox Century," a chronicle of the Boston Red Sox.
Frazee (pronounced FRAY-zee) and his wife Patricia live near Gig Harbor on a hillside facing Fox Island, a setting as picturesque as a Green Monster seat at Fenway Park.
Frazee, of Scottish descent, never corrected the impression that he was Jewish, though it was clearly meant as a slur at the time.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /levesque/141428_leve26.html   (1399 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - When the Yankees nearly moved to Boston
Frazee grated against Johnson in several ways, including his relative youth, his theatrical background, and even his religion, which Johnson and many contemporaries, particularly in the press, incorrectly assumed was Jewish.
Instead, Frazee sold him to Yankees owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston, who were angry with Johnson for not living up to a promise to help them get some players for their moribund franchise.
Frazee financial documents recently uncovered by the Frazee family and now held at the University of Texas reveal that the park remained in the hands of the Fenway Realty Trust, controlled by Charles Taylor of the Boston Globe Taylors.
espn.go.com /mlb/s/2002/0718/1407265.html   (1965 words)

  
 Harry Frazee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Frazee Area Map Shows where Frazee is in relation to Detroit Lakes, Park Rapids, and the White Earth Reservation.
Harry Potter, Culture, and Religion Scholarly articles and updates on Harry Potter and religious objections against the use of the Harry Potter books in public schools.
Harry et compagnie Une présentation des lieux fréquentés par Harry et ses amis.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Harry_Frazee.html   (1808 words)

  
 Definition of Harry Frazee
Harry H. Frazee (1881 - June 4, 1929) was an American theatrical agent and producer who gained renown as a notoriously foolhardy team owner in Major League Baseball.
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Frazee was the owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923.
This event is famed in Boston for having initiated the so-called "Curse of the Bambino", the third longest drought in World Series titles (1918-2004), the longest being that of the Chicago Cubs, (1908-present) and the second longest being that of the Chicago White Sox, (1917-present).
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 Curse of the Bambino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In standard curse lore, Red Sox owner and theatrical producer Harry Frazee used the proceeds from the sale to finance the production of a Broadway musical, usually specified as No, No, Nanette.
In fact, Frazee backed many productions before and after Ruth's sale, and although it is the musical most associated with Frazee, No, No, Nanette did not see its first performance until five years after the Ruth sale.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, with the score tied at 3-3, the Cardinals had Enos Slaugther on first base and Harry Walker at the plate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curse_of_the_Bambino   (2083 words)

  
 Journal Inquirer Article on FoxFire's Owner
Frazee and Daley diffused the situation by simply talking to the man. In the end, the man put the shotgun down.
The case went unsolved for a couple of months, until Frazee solved it and arrested the man. The woman was so impressed with Frazee's professionalism that she later named a son after him, as an expression of gratitude.
Frazee leaves police work at a time when the department is embracing wholeheartedly the concept of community policing, where officers take a proactive approach to combating crime by working more closely with the community.
www.foxfireinvestigative.com /clients/ji.htm   (809 words)

  
 The Curse of the Bambino - ROYAL ROOTERS
Harry H. Frazee was born in Peoria, Illinois, on June 29, 1880, the son of Margaret and William Byron Frazee.
Frazee raised Ruth's salary from $3,500 to $5,000.th's salary was raised to $7,000 and guaranteed to go to $10,000 in 1919 if he had a good year.
Frazee said he was, and the driver decked him with one punch.
www.redsoxnation.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=1233   (3317 words)

  
 ESPN.com - MLB/PLAYOFFS2004 - A 'Curse' born of hate
Frazee did not even own Fenway Park and the deal was not dependent on any mortgage, although after he Frazee purchased the ballpark from the Globe's Taylor family he quickly secured a second mortgage from the Yankees.
Frazee was attacked for promoting boxing matches featuring "Negro" fighters, for encouraging sensuousness in the theater, for the demise of the Red Sox and for his undermining of Ban Johnson.
Frazee turned his attention back to the theater, hitting the jackpot in 1925 with the musical "No, No, Nanette." It became the most successful musical of the decade, toured worldwide, and earned Frazee millions.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?page=Curse041005   (6224 words)

  
 2000 Harry Frazee Award
In 1917, when Harry Frazee bought the team, the Boston Red Sox were the best franchise in the American League.
Frazee sold the Babe…and the Red Sox finished dead last in nine out of the next eleven years.
In addition it should be noted that Frazee was a clever businessman in many ways, producing more than 40 successful plays.
www.thebaseballpage.com /features/frazee/frazee_award2000.htm   (936 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Red Sox / Story turned into a bestseller
The Sox owner, "Big Harry" as he is known in family lore, sold the ball club to J.A. Robert Quinn in 1923 for $1,250,000.
Harry III has two sons: James, a 49-year-old film distributor who lives in Oslo, and Max, 48, a construction supervisor and conceptual artist who lives in Battery Park City in New York.
It is Max Frazee, great-grandson of Big Harry, who is most articulate and available when it comes to discussing the family name and Red Sox folklore.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2003/09/05/story_turned_into_a_bestseller   (1092 words)

  
 WNYC - Reading Room: Babe Ruth : Launching the Legend
Frazee even tried more than once during the1918 season to organize a real "World" Series--that is, to take it to Europe as entertainment for American troops.
If Harry Frazee had clearly mastered the art of spin control, Babe Ruth in late 1919 was a man in dire need of a lesson in how not to offend.
Frazee did so by explaining his reasons in a 1,500-word statement that was printed in the Post.
www.wnyc.org /books/33644   (4565 words)

  
 Harry Frazee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
'''Harry H. Frazee''' (1881 - June 4, 1929) was an American theatrical agent and producer and owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923.
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Frazee bought the Boston Red Sox in 1916 for about $500,000.
In the early 1920s, Frazee came under attack in Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent for being a Jew and thus "degrading" the noble sport of baseball.
harry-frazee.ask.dyndns.dk   (366 words)

  
 Sports: Bambino's curse begins as Red Sox trade Ruth
"Frazee yelled as if I were trying to rob the cash drawer at the old Frazee Theater in New York," Ruth wrote in his biography.
Frazee and two others had bought the Red Sox in 1916, paying less than half the $675,000 sale price in cash, Frazee making up the rest in notes to former owner Joe Lannin.
Frazee used the money from the sale of the Babe and numerous other Red Sox to remain solvent and survive until he sold the team for $1.25-million in 1923.
www.sptimes.com /News/122199/Sports/Bambino_s_curse_begin.shtml   (983 words)

  
 Harry Frazee | BaseballLibrary.com
The man who sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $100,000 and a $300,000 loan, Frazee was a theatrical producer who bought the World Champion Red Sox for $400,000 in 1917 and sold the last-place team for $1.5 million in 1923.
Meanwhile, Frazee had contributed Everett Scott and Herb Pennock to the budding Yankee dynasty.
Frazee's departure is welcomed by Boston fans who are fed up with the sale of Frazee's best players over the years.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/F/Frazee_Harry.stm   (469 words)

  
 NJ Monthly
The funny thing is that Harry Frazee, who was the owner of the Red Sox at the time, got rid of Babe Ruth because Ruth was a diva, and Frazee was a theater impresario who had no time for divas.
Frazee’s been killed over the years because of this, but you have to remember that Babe Ruth had 665 home runs after he got off the Red Sox.
Harry Frazee had no idea what he was trading.
www.njmonthly.com /issues/oct05/gvsteve.html   (463 words)

  
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Frazee, seeing that Ruth had not played as well in 1919 as he had in previous years, sold him to the Yankees for a total of $400,000, $100,000 in cash up front, and $300,000 in loans using Fenway Park as collateral (baseball-almanac.com).
Harry Frazee began advertising the fact that he was willing to get rid of one of the team’s young stars, Babe Ruth, whose struggles in the 1919 season cost the Red Sox a chance at repeating as champions.
As a result Harry Frazee was able to take control of Fenway Park, and sustain himself as the owner of the Red Sox, and the Yankees were able to score a premier player in the league (ESPN.com).
www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~ecsull/mag1fall2003/Gvertz.doc   (3079 words)

  
 about: The Red Sox curse story revisited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Frazee’s denying rumors that the whole club is for sale, though he simultaneously is reported “willing to part with the club if he could get his price.” The main reason he’s not gonna sell?
About eight weeks later, “Harry Frazee has been quoted as saying that he would include any player on his club in a deal with the exception of Harry Hooper, whose major league career has been entirely with the Boston club.” (“Baseball Briefs,” NYT 12/28/19, p.
Frazee’s about to enjoy the fruits of his post-Ruth focus on theatrical investment; No, No, Nanette will be an enormous success, bringing in a net of $25,000 a week.
rauchway.ucdavis.edu /mt/archives/general_knowledge/000132.html   (1016 words)

  
 The New York Times: This Day In Sports
The New York club paid Harry Frazee of Boston $125,000 for the sensational batsman who last season caused such a furor in the national game by batting out twenty-nine home runs, a new record in long-distance clouting.
Frazee said tonight that he had sold Ruth to the New York Americans because he thought it was an "injustice" to keep him with the Red Sox, who "were fast becoming a one-man team." Mr.
Frazee said he would use the money obtained from the New York Club for the purchase of other players and would try to develop the Red Sox into a winning team.
www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/01.05.html   (797 words)

  
 Special to Behind the Bombers From Harvey Frommer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On a cold January 5, 1920, Babe Ruth, 24, was sold by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee to the New York Yankees for $125,000.
Frazee was also given a $350,000 mortgage on Fenway Park by Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert.
Harry Frazee had a home in Boston, but his main residence was on Park Avenue.
www.allsports.com /mlb/yankees/frommer42.htm   (868 words)

  
 Harry frazee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Frazee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Brenda Frazee, Community Outreach Worker at the health department and member of the CUD Committee, organized a contest among high school and college-aged...
Vernon Frazee, chairman of the Lake Contrary Sewer District, said he didn’t understand the letter, which is filled with legal language.
Jeff Frazee, a standout with the Stars as a sophomore last season and a Gophers recruit, is playing for the US development team in Ann Arbor, Mich....
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/F/Frazee.shtml   (1269 words)

  
 Newsletter
And it had all ended, this magic era, when a man named Harry Frazee sold all the players to the Yankees and the Red Sox became the worst team instead of the best team, and Babe Ruth became the other Babe Ruth, the one who was played by William Bendix in the movie.
Frazee’s tattered reputation, the authors say, is the only remnant of a war he waged with AL President Ban Johnson.
Frazee has been described as everything from a simple fool and selfish buffoon to a con man and the devil incarnate.
webpages.charter.net /joekuras/century.htm   (3003 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Baseball - 100 Classic Yankee Moments: Babe Ruth: Steal of the century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Much more than a baseball man, Frazee was an entrepreneur who viewed his team the same way he looked at his Broadway productions: as a revenue stream.
Frazee had sold off talent before — in 1916, he sent his best player, Tris Speaker, to the Cleveland Indians — and still the Red Sox kept winning World Series.
Ruth may have been the greatest two-way talent in the game, but he was becoming increasingly incorrigible, grousing about money (he wanted his $10,000 salary doubled), bailing out on the final game of the 1919 season to appear in a pay-for-play exhibition game and doing his customary carousing.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/baseball/story/75649p-69868c.html   (557 words)

  
 Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox by Allan Wood -- Chapter 19
Harry Frazee and Charles Weeghman probably hoped the rain would continue and force a game on Sunday as well.
Harry Hooper stepped into the batter's box in the top of the first inning.
Harry Hooper caught it on the run and in 1 hour, 50 minutes, Boston had upset the dope and won the opening game.
www.1918redsox.com /chapter19.htm   (3855 words)

  
 Harry Frazee
Harry Frazee III I went to see the movie "Fever Pitch" with my wife.
Harry Frazee From BR Bullpen Born 1880 Died 1929 Harry Frazee was owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923.
History remembers Harry Frazee as the former Boston Red Sox owner who sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees and thus unwittingly started the “Curse of the Bambino.
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Harry_Frazee   (379 words)

  
 The Best Rivalry in Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Since Red Sox owner Harry Frazee needed money he decided to sell Ruth for $100,000 and a $350,000 mortgage payment on Fenway Park.
Frazee had been the scape goat for all the Sox failures for the next 84 years.
The Red Sox were sent into a funk for the remaining 12 years that Harry Frazee owned the Red Sox.
pubpages.unh.edu /~jcl5/history.html   (872 words)

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