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1910 - 2002
STOCKTON, Calif. (Tue February 12, 2002) - Frank Crosetti, the shortstop on eight New York Yankees World Series championship teams from 1932 to 1948, is dead at the age of 91.
Crosetti died Monday night of complications from a fall in early January, said his wife of 63 years, Norma.
``He was Yankee all the way around. We had no other team. He only played with the Yankees,' she said.
In his 17 seasons with New York, Crosetti played with a legion of Yankee greats, including Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. He was a member of nine American League championship teams and had a career batting average of .245 with 98 home runs and 649 runs batted in.
In 1938, Crosetti led the league with 27 stolen bases. His 757 plate appearances that year set a major league record for a 154-game season.
After retiring in 1948, he was the Yankees' third-base coach for 20 years, taking part in 15 more World Series.
Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti was born Oct. 4, 1910 in San Francisco, where he grew up in North Beach, the same Italian-American neighborhood where DiMaggio learned to play ball.
Besides his wife, Crosetti's survivors include a son, John D. Crosetti of San Diego, a daughter, Ellen Biggs of Menlo Park, three grandsons and two great-grandchildren.
