Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti (October 4, 1910 – February 11, 2002) was an American baseball shortstop. Nicknamed "The Crow", he spent his entire seventeen-year Major League Baseball playing career with the New York Yankees before becoming a coach with the franchise for an additional twenty seasons. As a player and third base coach for the Yankees, Crosetti was part of seventeen World Championship teams and 23 World Series participants overall (1932–1964), the most of any individual. Early years Crosetti was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in North Beach, which was something of a hotbed of Italian-American talent on the baseball field during the 1920s and 1930s (Tony Lazzeri, Charlie Silvera and the three DiMaggio brothers also hail from the same neighborhood). Before joining the Yankees, Crosetti played four seasons with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. New York Yankees Crosetti joined the Yankees in , and batted .241 with five home runs and 57 runs batted in at the bottom of the Yankees' batting order. He was part of a World Series championship his first year in the big leagues as the Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs in the 1932 World Series two days shy of Crosetti's 22nd birthday. The finest year of Crosetti's career came in , when he batted .288 with fifteen home runs, 78 runs batted in, and 137 runs scored, all career highs. Batting lead-off, he was named an American League All-Star for the first time in his career, and reached the World Series for the second time. Crosetti batted .269 in the Yankees' six game victory over the New York Giants in the 1936 World Series, and drove in the winning run in the Yankees' 2–1 victory in game three. The 1936 season was the first of a string of four World Series titles for Crosetti and the Yankees. After a poor season, he lost his starting shortstop job to Phil Rizzuto in . He was given back the starting shortstop job when Rizzuto joined the Navy for battle in World War II; however, he became a reserve once again when Rizzuto rejoined the club in . Crosetti then became a player/coach for the club through the season. Career stats In 29 World Series games, Crosetti batted .174 with one home run, 11 runs batted in, and 16 runs scored. His only World Series home