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Randy Frankel and Little League -- the perfect double play combo
by Jonathan Mayo, 19 April 2007
The Jewish Chronicle
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Youth Will Be Served in Squirrel Hill
by Bruce Stephen, October 2005
Squirrel Hill Magazine
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Snagged from   http://www.post-gazette.com/pensjournal/photos_display.asp?ID=17025   October 2005.

Squirrel Hill Baseball Commissioner Spotted Celebrating Sidney Crosby's first goal.

"Penguins' Sidney Crosby celebrates with teammate Ziggy Palffy after scoring his first goal as a pro in the second period against Boston Bruins in the Mellon Arena on Saturday, Oct 8, 2005."

(RF and his son are prominent just behind SC's left arm.  This picture has also appeared in several national magazines.)
(See the same scene in this short mpg video clip.)

 

Snagged from   http://www.orgsites.com/pa/shhs/_pgg5.php3   August 2005  (archived here in pdf format)

SEPTEMBER 2003 -- "Squirrel Hill Stories from the 60's!"

Last night (Sept. 9), the SHHS entertained itself with a sentimental meeting discussing growing up in Squirrel Hill.

Herb Goldstein started us off with a story of how he, and very few others, created a new boys baseball league in ten days in the summer of 1971. "Little League" baseball was at its peak in America. The 14th Ward Official Little League was rejecting half the boys of Squirrel Hill who wanted to play baseball. The boys disappointment approached being cruel and Herb's own boys were part of this rejection. So Herb turned the problem into an opportunity and had 100+ boys playing in 8 teams in the summer of '71 -- with good uniforms and a reasonable facsimile of a little league field in Frick Park. Youth baseball today in Squirrel Hill is alive and well because of Herb's efforts.

 

Snagged from   http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030605weatherr2.asp   August 2005
(The complete story is also available here, in pdf format.)

Wet May a damper on sports schedules
Just 7 sunny days and many rainouts
 Thursday, June 05, 2003, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Many baseball and softball leagues are cramming makeup games alongside playoff and all-star games, and there's talk of not just doubleheaders, but maybe tripleheaders, "although I hope it doesn't come to that," said Joe Howell, head of the Sacred Heart Baseball and Softball League.

Randy Frankel, director of the Squirrel Hill Baseball League, is still kicking himself for pushing back the starting date of his league's season by two weeks, to April 25.

"It's notoriously rainy in April, so we thought we were doing ourselves a favor, but April was actually better this year than May." Now, close to 30 games -- out of 160 scheduled -- have been rained out, he said.

Frankel has purchased nearly 100 50-pound bags of Terra Green, a drying agent that can be spread on playing fields to soak up excess water. Sales of the stuff have been booming, said David Guerin, co-owner of E.H. Griffith Inc. in Swissvale. "We've been selling three times the amount we normally sell," he said. "Of course, we'd rather see the sunshine."

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 Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Newsletter, October 1994, pages 7-9
THEN -- Fourteenth Ward Baseball ... It all started with a track meet!
NOW -- The Squirrel Hill / JCC Little League
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