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- Frank was the top
scorer and rebounder for the Columbus High hoops team his senior year.
- Frank earned All-America
honors at Auburn in 1989.
- In 1990, Baseball
America named Frank its Minor League Player of the Year.
- In 1990, Frank
hit the last homer in old Comiskey Park. In 1991, he hit the first homer
in “new” Comiskey Park.
- Frank and Jeff
Bagwell were born on the same day. Each won his league’s MVP award
in 1994. They watched their teams play in the 2005 World Series, unable
to participate.
- Frank’s .729
slugging average in 1994 was the highest in the AL since Ted Williams
slugged .731 in 1957.
- Frank won the Home
Run Derby at the 1995 All-Star Game. In the 1996 competition, he launched
a 519-foot homer.
- In 1995, Frank
became the first White Sox player to homer in the All-Star Game. His
bomb to leftfield sailed into a luxury box rented by the Players Association
and was caught by Don Fehr's nine-year-old son.
- Frank was the AL’s
Comeback Player of the Year in 2000.
- In 2005, Frank
his 10 homers in his first 69 at bats. The last AL player to reach 10
homers faster was Carlos Delgado in 2001.
- Frank is the only
player in history to produce seven straight seasons (1991-97) with a
.300 average, 20 homers, 100 RBIs, 100 runs and 100 walks. Lou Gehrig,
Ted Williams and Jason Giambi are the only players to have as many as
four straight.
- Frank was the 11th
player in history to win back-to-back MVP awards—and the first
AL player since Roger Maris.
- Frank was only
the third MVP in White Sox history. Nellie Fox won in 1959 and Dick
Allen won in 1972.
- Frank is the Chicago
White Sox all-time leader with 448 homers, 1,465 RBIs, 1,327 runs, and
1,466 walks
- Frank’s 2006
Chicago homecoming was bittersweet. He clubbed two homers against the
White Sox on May 23, but the A’s lost in 10 innings.
- When Frank retired, he was the seventh player with 500 home runs and a .300 lifetime average. The first six were Babe Ruth, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. Manny Ramirez later became the eighth player on the list.
- In 2011, the White Sox erected a statue of Frank outside their ballpark. They had already retired his #35 in a 2010 ceremony.
- Frank hit his 500th home run on the same day Craig Biggio collected his 3,000th hit
- Frank’s two three-homer games both came against the Boston Red Sox, but more than 10 years apart. Even so, Tim Wakefield pitched both games and gave up five of the six round-trippers.
- Tom appeared in
the 1992 film "Mr. Baseball." he played the hulking rookie
who forced Tom Selleck’s character to move to Japan.
- Frank lent his
name to candy bar in 1996 to help the fundraising efforts of Chicago-area
charities.
- Frank has three
kids—Sterling, Sloan and Sydney.
- Frank’s ex-wife,
Elise Silver, is the great niece of Maury Silver, a baseball pioneer
in Rochester, NY. A book chronicling the city’s minor league baseball
team is entitled Silver Seasons, and the Red Wings’ old
ballpark was named Silver Stadium.
- Frank works fulltime at W2W Records, a music company he founded during his playing days.
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Jeff Bagwell,
Black Book Partners archives

Craig Biggio,
Black Book Partners archives

Tom Selleck,
1993 Upper Deck Mr. Baseball
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