Richmond Times Dispatch,
March 23, 1913 (pg. 7)
Jack Frey
Identified as Frye in most boxscores
Born: May 5, 1888
Died: June 12, 1951
Goto Baseball Reference for Jack Frey 		p Majors:
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St. Louis
Position: p
First game: May 6, 1910
Last game: May 10, 1913
# of games: 2		 Clarence "Jack" Frey started the very first game for the Terriers, appearing in the boxscores as Frye. He is identified as Frey in multiple articles about the club in the St. Louis papers in early May. He was released from Richmond (VA) on April 15, 1913 with Marvin Bridges.


The first official pitch by a St. Louis Terrier, on May 6, 1913, was made by a player identified as Frye in the box scores then next day, but his actual name was Frey. "O'Connor has just about decided to start Frey, with Bridges as the second choice. Both these lads worked out in good form yesterday afternoon and as they have had about a month's work in Richmond, Va., either should be able to stand the test of pitching nine rounds" (St. Louis Globe Democrat, May 6, 1913, pg. 10). Sadly for St. Louis, Frey proved not up that challenge. "Frye started out like a world-beater by easily retiring the first three batters to face him" (Globe Democrat, May 7, 1913). However, he got dinged for one run in the second, and three more in the third before Bridges relieved him in the fourth inning. Fisher pitched a perfect ninth, but St. Louis lost 7-4. Frey started one more game, on May 10 in Covington (again identified as Frye in the boxscore). He lasted 4 1/3 innings, allowing six runs, but St. Louis won by a score of 16-7. He was given his unconditional release after the game.

Frey was in fact Clarence "Jack" Frey, as identified in a short blurb in the Harrisburg Telegraph on August 24, 1917 (pg. 15).

Marysville and Duaphin will have a friendly conflict on the Seidel Park grounds to-morrow. The ex-champs will make a tremendous effot to gain a victory and have at least a chance of entering into a tie for fourth place. Manager Herman's battery is uncertain to-night. Dauphin will likely use Buck Gilday and Ducky Rhoads. Jack Frey, the ex-St. Louis Federal Leaguer, or young Williams of Gettysburg College may be given a chance on the mound to-morrow.

A few years before his brief stint in St. Louis, the York Disptach reported that "Clarence Frey, well known in baseball circles throughout the state" was spending a vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Frey (September 18, 1911, pg. 7). From this, he can be found on Ancestry.com and in Census records. He was born in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania on May 5, 1888. The Globe Democrat reported that he was 5' 11" and weighed about 180 lbs. (May 6).

The season prior to joining St. Louis, Frey pitched in the Carolina Association for Anderson and Greenville. He was signed by Richmond in the Virginia League for 1913, along with Marvin Bridges. Both pitchers were released by Richmond on April 15 (Richmond Times Dispatch, April 16, 1913). Bridges is noted as signing with the Federals in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on May 1, 1913. It seems reasonable that Frey signed about the same time.

After leaving St. Louis, Frey turns up pitching for Greensboro (North Carlina) in July (Greensboro Daily News, July 20, 1913). While there, his name is spelled as "Frye" at various times. In 1914, he signed with Durham of the North Carolina State League. "Clarence Frey, better known in athletic circles as 'Jack' of Glen Rock... left yesterday for Durham, North Carolina, where he will join the Durham club" (York Daily, March 16, 1914). He played with Durham in 1914 and 1915.

Jack Frey died on June 12, 1951 in Arlington Virginia.