Frank Russo
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Frank Russo (June 18, 1959 - ) is an author and baseball researcher. Born in New Brunswick, NJ, Russo took up computers after a 15 year career in radio, eventually conceiving the idea to build the first website dedicated to deceased Major League baseball players. After seven months of intensive work, TheDeadballEra.com was launched on April Fools' Day, 1999. Since then, it has become one the most popular baseball sites in the world.
Russo grew up in East Brunswick, NJ and has researched ball players since the age of nine. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of players and of historic events surrounding the game. A self-professed diehard Yankees Fan, he eventually teamed up with Gene Racz, reporter/editor for the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick, NJ to co/author the book, Bury My Heart At Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball. The book is, of course, an extension of his famous website, and has been applauded for its unique and entertaining approach to a touchy subject.
Russo has been interviewed by Radio and TV stations throughout the USA and Canada and has had numerous articles written about him in periodicals, magazines (Sports Illustrated), Newspapers, (the New York Post) and also websites.
He is also a frequent caller to both WFAN in New York, (usually on the Evan Roberts Show) and 1050 ESPN Radio (The Michael Kay Show), also in New York.
He currently lives in East Brunswick, NJ with his wife Joanne and mother Rose.
"Some people want a big deal, they do. All you've got to do is go to Arlington National Cemetery to see where the True American Heros lie. Just go there. Me, I want to be donated or stuffed or propped up in a chair holding a beer in one hand and a cigar in the other. I could care less what happens to me. Scatter my ashes in my cat's litter box. They can throw me in the water as chum."
"Baseball is about the players! Without the players, there is no game."
"When I was a kid, my Uncle told me, 'Yankee Haters are like a mad dog! You can't reason with them, you can't talk to them, all you can do is shoot them."
