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Ford Christopher Frick (December 19, 1894 – April 8, 1978) was an American sportswriter and baseball executive. After working as a teacher and as a sportswriter for the ''New York American'', he served as public relations director of the National League (NL), then as the league's president from to . He was the third Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1951 to . While Frick was NL president, he had a major role in the establishment of the Baseball Hall of Fame as a museum that honors the best players in baseball history. He extinguished threats of a player strike in response to the racial integration of the major leagues. During Frick's term as commissioner, expansion occurred and MLB faced the threat of having its antitrust exemption revoked by Congress. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970. The Ford C. Frick Award recognizes outstanding MLB broadcasters. ==Early life== Frick was born on a farm in Wawaka, Indiana, and went to high school in Rome City, Indiana.〔 He took classes at International Business College in Fort Wayne, then worked for a company that made engines for windmills.〔 He attended DePauw University, where he played first base for the DePauw baseball team and ran track.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/19588/ )〕 He graduated in 1915.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/mlb_history_people.jsp?story=com_bio_3 )〕 He had been a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ucrphipsi.com/page.php?pageid=3 )〕 Frick came to Colorado to play semipro baseball in Walsenburg.〔 After his stint as a baseball player, Frick lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He taught English at Colorado Springs High School and at Colorado College. Frick moonlighted for ''The Gazette'', covering sports and news until he left to work for the War Department near the conclusion of World War I. When the war was over, Frick worked in Denver for the ''Rocky Mountain News''. Frick returned to Colorado Springs to take a job with the ''Evening Telegraph'', which later merged with ''The Gazette''. Around this time, he had given some thought to starting his own advertising agency. In 1921, a flood devastated much of Pueblo, Colorado. When other reporters had flown in to cover the flood, their airplanes had become stuck in muddy conditions and they had been stranded in Pueblo. Frick had a pilot fly him there, but instead of landing, they circled low over Pueblo while Frick took notes and photographs. He was able to file his story a day earlier than other reporters. The recognition from the Pueblo flood helped Frick get a position with the ''New York American'' in 1922.〔 Frick was also a broadcaster for the WOR Radio Network. At WOR, he worked with Stan Lomax, who went on to a long career broadcasting sports in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ford Frick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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