Skip To Main Content
Frederic Frommer on Muck Rack

Frederic Frommer

Verified
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: The Washington Post, CNN, MSN, MSN Ireland, The Athletic, Yahoo Entertainment, Bloomberg Businessweek, HuffPost, Post Outlook, The Guardian, USA Today and
Writer @washingtonpost and other natl pubs. Sports & politics historian. Author of book on Nats history. Alum @AP @CNN. Also follow me @ffrommer.bsky.social
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Frederic

Contact Frederic, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Forty Years Ago, a Death Knell to the USFL — and Trump’s Football Foray

|
By Frederic Frommer Verified
| contrariannews.org
By Frederic J. Frommer In the summer of 1986, a jury awarded a single dollar to the United States Football League in its antitrust case against the NFL, the fatal blow to the upstart USFL. But Donald Trump, a key player in the litigation as owner of the USFL’s New Jersey Generals, somehow spun it into a positive. “We won a great moral victory,” he said the day of the jury’s finding, July 29, 1986 — 40 years ago today.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Ted Williams, Satchel Paige and the fight to induct Negro Leaguers into baseball’s Hall of Fame

|
By Frederic Frommer Verified
| AOL UK Verified
When Ted Williams, the last man to hit .400, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he had an iconic career to reflect on. But he decided to dedicate a portion of his speech to championing Black players who had been excluded because of baseball’s longtime color barrier. “I’ve always been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, to have struck out or to hit a tape-measure home run,” Williams said in his 25 July 1966 speech – 60 years ago Saturday.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Remembering Pete Rose’s Violent Winning Run at 1970 All-Star Game

|
By Frederic Frommer Verified
| contrariannews.org
By Frederic J. Frommer When last year’s All-Star Game was tied after nine innings, MLB turned to a home run derby as a tiebreaker. In 1970, Pete Rose took another approach. With the score tied at 4 in the bottom of the 12th inning, Rose, the Reds star known for his hair-on-fire playing style, barreled into Cleveland Indians catcher Ray Fosse to score the winning run for the National League in front of his hometown Cincinnati fans.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 1,420 licensed articles (1,475 Total)