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Frazee backed a number of New York theatrical productions ( before and after Ruth's sale ), the best known of which is probably No, No, Nanette, which was once claimed, and later ( questionably ) debunked, as the specific play that Ruth's sale financed.
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In fact, Frazee backed many productions before and after Ruth's sale, and No, No, Nanette did not see its first performance until five years after the Ruth sale and two years after Frazee sold the Red Sox.
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* 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.
The " astute " Frazee in turn recovered a large part of the purchase price by selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for the then astounding amount of $ 125, 000.
The team finished in sixth in 1919, and after the 1919 season Frazee started selling players to the New York Yankees, most notoriously Babe Ruth.
Because Harry Frazee was from New York and involved in theatre, it was assumed he was a Jew ( he actually was a Presbyterian ).
Then American League president Ban Johnson disliked Frazee for this reason, saying he was " too New York " and making reference to the " mystery " of his religion — polite code that would have been well understood in the 1920s.
The theatre was one of the many assets that Boston Red Sox owner and Broadway empresario Harry Frazee sold at the same time that he sold the contract of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
Some years after the premiere, it was claimed that producer Harry Frazee, a former owner of the Boston Red Sox, financed the show by selling baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the " Curse of the Bambino ," which, according to a popular superstition, kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series from until.
* Harry Frazee ( 1881-1929 ), American theatrical agent and producer, one-time owner of the Boston Red Sox baseball team who sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
Frazee Theatre, New York.
Shore was sold to the New York Yankees by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee, where he closed out his career.
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At age eighteen, Rowland Frazee went to work as a clerk at his father's branch but following the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1941 serving overseas with the Carleton and York Regiment, First Canadian Infantry Division, with whom he participated in the July, 1943 allied landings in Sicily.
Frazee and theatrical
Harry Herbert Frazee ( June 29, 1880 – June 4, 1929 ) was an American theatrical agent, producer and director, and former owner of the Major League Baseball Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923.
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.
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It was named Detroit and later Third Crossing before adopting its name of Frazee.
However, he ignored the fact that, according to the Internet Broadway Database, after the production of My Lady Friends and long before No, No, Nannette went into production in 1925, Frazee produced two other very successful plays, Dulcy ( 1921-1922 ) and Her Temporary Husband, facts that call Montville's conclusion into question.
After an intersection with Rancho Del Oro Road, SR 76 passes over Mission Avenue again before intersecting with Old Grove Road, Frazee Road, a turnoff into the Towne Center North shopping center, and College Boulevard.
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Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert was a personal friend, as well as the only owner Frazee could deal with after the Black Sox Scandal left the White Sox tarnished.
That play had, indeed, been financed as a direct result of the Ruth sale to the Yankees and that " Harry Frazee was the bad guy ", after all.
In truth, Frazee found it difficult to make deals with the " Loyal Five " even after Ruth left for the Bronx.
Frazee was upset over the holdout because he had given Ruth bonuses after both the 1918 and 1919 seasons.
Finally, with Ruth's demands so high and after several occasions in which Ruth had already jumped the team, Frazee felt he had no choice but to ship Ruth out.
Robert W. Creamer reported that " loan was made and relations between the two clubs continued to be cordial, with Frazee sending player after player to the Yankees over the next few seasons for more and more cash.
Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees after the season, against Barrow's warnings.
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Although not as well known to baseball fans, some Broadway producers believe that there is also a correlated curse on the Longacre Theatre, which Frazee owned at the time that he initiated the sale of Ruth's contract to the Yankees.
Despite Ruth's success with the Red Sox, owner and Broadway producer Frazee lost his patience with Ruth, who had threatened to hold out in lieu of a larger contract and become a distraction.
Frazee and sale
Babe Ruth — the biggest sale Frazee made.
In 2005, ESPN Classic aired an episode in The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame ... series in which it examined the sale, and explained why Frazee cannot be held as the scapegoat:
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The three largest employers in Frazee are Frazee-Vergas Public Schools ( 160 employees ), Frazee Care Center ( 160 ), and Daggett Truck Line ( 102 ).
Under the circumstances, when Frazee finally lost patience with Ruth ( see below ), his options were severely limited.
* Jeff Frazee ( b. 1987 ), American ice hockey goaltender.
* Marla Frazee ( b. 1958 ), American children's book author and illustrator.
* Rowland Frazee ( b. 1921 ), former CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada.
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In 1923, Quinn led a group that purchased the Boston Red Sox, and as team president he worked to restore the credibility of a franchise whose best players had been sold off by previous owner Harry Frazee.
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Cesar Chavez Middle School, which is on the corner of Frazee and Oleander, will be built on a, house 11 building totaling and will serve 1, 000 6th-8th grade students.
Lannin also threatened to sell his interest in the Fenway Realty Trust, which would have opened the door for a new owner to buy into the park if Frazee lost the franchise.
The Longacre, which Frazee had built as his personal showplace in 1913, was one of the many properties that Frazee sold at the same time.
In 1919, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold star player Babe Ruth to the Yankees, which was followed by an 86-year period in which the Red Sox did not win a World Series.
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The city of Frazee is entirely within this township geographically but is a separate entity.
Frazee ( ) is a city in Becker County, Minnesota, United States.
Frazee is located 46. 8 degrees north of the equator and 95. 8 degrees west of the prime meridian.
The City of Frazee is governed by the Statutory City Plan A form of government ( in Minnesota, 601 cities operate under Plan A ).
This is the home of Aunt Betty Frazee, whose retort to Lord Cornwallis led the British to find their bread from friendlier bakers in the same battle.
The simple farmstead of Betty and Gershom Frazee, a type of structure that rarely survives the centuries, is today the object of a restoration effort by local organizations.
* The Aunt Betty Frazee House is a rare historic treasure, the simple farmhouse of a colonial-era couple Gershom and Elizabeth Frazee, the latter of whom was approached by British generals in 1777 who sought to buy bread she'd been baking that day.
The truth is somewhat more nuanced and dates to a long-running dispute between Frazee and American League founder and president Ban Johnson.
However, Mission Avenue is still fragmented today, and does not exist between Frazee Road and Jefferies Ranch Road, where the expressway ends.
His son, Stephen Frazee, is a successful Toronto real estate broker and his daughter, Catherine Frazee, a former chair of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, is a retired Professor of Distinction at the Ryerson University School of Disability Studies.
Frazee is the first state champion, at any sport, from the school since its establishment.
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