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Article: Longest-serving Yankee Crosetti Dies at 91 -- Jim Spencer of 78 Yankees, Also Dies
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- February 13, 2002
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Longest-serving Yankee Crosetti Dies at 91
NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
STOCKTON, Calif. - 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 ...