Frank Torre

Frank Torre, the older brother of 1971 National League Most Valuable Player and long-time major league manager Joe Torre, was a slick-fielding first baseman on the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1950s. Frank played on both of the Braves pennant winners, the 1957 team that beat the Yankees in the World Series, and the 1958 team that lost their World's Championship the following year to the Bronx Bombers. The lefty who was born on December 30, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joe Torre, Sr., who was a New York City police detective. Frank was signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1951. The Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and Torre made his major league debut three years later, on April 20, 1956. In his seven years in The Show, he hit .273 but was mostly valued for his good glove work. Frank and Joe's father Joe Torre Sr. was a baseball scout for the Milwaukee Braves from 1955 through 1961, and for the Baltimore Orioles from 1962 until his death in 1971. Joe Jr. came up with the Braves in 1960. Frank Torre missed the 1961 season, after which he was sold to the Philadelphia Phillies. IN 1962, he hit a career best .310 in 108 games (he hit .309 in 138 games in 1958). Frank's finished his career with the Phillies in 1963. By then, brother Joe was on the verge of breaking out as a star player for his former team, the Braves. He had a heart transplant in 1996. [edit]