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IN Frankie Frisch, the erstwhile Fordham Flash who holds a place of honor in baseball's Hall of Fame, newcomer Maury Farrell, and Steve Ellis, WMCA has a triumvirate of outstanding sports announcers. Frisch and Farrell handle the WMCA play-by-play broadcasts of all Giant games while Ellis provides the commentary for the televised games from the Polo Grounds and conducts the nightly sports show, Giant Jottings, over WMCA.
Frisch's colorful background as a player and manager — he's been in baseball since 1919 — makes the 50-year-old squire of New Rochelle the best informed mike-man in the sport. Captain of the baseball, football and basketball teams at Fordham, Frisch joined the Giants after being graduated and remained with the New York team through the 1926 season when he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for Rogers Hornsby. He played with the rampaging Gas House Gang that included the fabulous Dizzy and Daffy Dean, Pepper Martin, Joe Medwick and Leo "The Lip" Durocher for the next decade and was manager from 1933 to 1938. Frisch donned mufti for the 1938 season and became a baseball broadcaster in Boston for one season. The following year he took over the command of the Pittsburgh Pirates and remained at the helm through the 1946 campaign. Last year he returned to the Polo Grounds — where he played his first major league game — as the chief man in the broadcasting booth. During his 19 years as an active player, Frisch batted .316, played in eight World Series and was named to two All Star teams.
Farrell is a native New Yorker who went South for his "minor league" training. A graduate of the University of Miami, his first radio experience was gained as an announcer at WQAM in Miami in 1936. Two years later he became director of sports and special events at WAPI in Birmingham.
Ellis, in a comparatively short time, has established himself as one of the country's top flight sports broadcasters. Born in Philadelphia, Steve attended school there and later worked his way through Miami University — as a fight manager, of all things! Later he joined the staff of the Miami Daily News as a sports reporter. He's been identified with New York Giant broadcasts for several years. Steve broke his "partnership" with Frisch to take over the television assignment this season.
Tin Giants' home run champion, Johnny Mize, admires the batting stances of the three broadcasters who furnish the team's "air power" — Maury Farrell, Steve Ellis and Frankie Frisch.