Frankie Crosetti who played for the New York Yankees for 17 seasons and was a coach for the Yankees in 23 more seasons was born on this day in 1910. Crosetti has the record- 17 World Series Championships from 1932-1964 with the Yankees as a player and coach and a total of 23 World Series appearances as player and coach.

As a player Crosetti was a career .245 hitter, a 2 time all-star. In 29 World Series games he hit .174. He is most famous for being a part of all those World Series Championships and Series and for his appearance in Jim Bouton’s “Ball Four” Crosetti was a coach for the Seattle Pilots the year that Bouton wrote the book. He did not paint Crosetti in a flattering way. Crosetti died in 2002 at the age of 91.