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Post by theburns on Jan 6, 2007 22:13:04 GMT -5
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Post by theforty on Jan 7, 2007 10:13:23 GMT -5
I didn't know Sam was an athlete at Cal Berkley in the 1030s. If so, he surely is the oldest person ever, well, he or Methuselah.
I also noticed that the person writing the letter to the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society was a partner in the law firm of Frietas, McCarthy, MacMahon and Keating. Could Tony Frietas or his progeny have a hand in this?
Anyway, I suppose there are less notible people who have statues erected in their honor, but Sam would not be my first choice for a statue...
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Post by ndbooster on Jan 7, 2007 13:34:18 GMT -5
So far no luck in finding Tony Freitas' family tree or his occupation outside of baseball. The San Rafael lawfirm was founded in 1925, which means Tony is not the founder (he would have been 17 at the time), and there seem to be no Freitases currently employed there, at least according to the list of lawyers on their Web page. A Manuel Freitas had been president of the Bank of San Rafael (and the Freitas Parkway in that city is named in his honor), so it's possible that the lawfirm has some familial connection to Manuel, rather than Tony, Freitas. In case anyone wants to hear Tony Freitas' speaking voice, the link below is for a Sacramento public radio broadcast (made in October 2006) promoting a documentary film made on the history of Sacramento baseball. Much of the broadcast is dry and dull, but there's a nice interview with a guy who was the radio announcer for the Sacramento Solons in the late '50s. Freitas' segment starts at the 24:05 mark and lasts about a minute and a half; he talks about the Solons winning their only PCL pennant in 1942, a pennant he clinched by winning the final game of the season. An interesting curiosity, maybe not worth hearing in its entirety, but the stuff about Freitas is good. www.archive.org/details/Insight_061009 |
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Post by ndbooster on Jan 7, 2007 13:51:58 GMT -5
As a supplement to the above link, this one takes you to the homepage of the radio station that issued the broadcast. There are photos of Freitas and other players and a different audioclip of Freitas which also covers the 1942 pennant race. www.capradio.org/programs/insight/default.aspx?showid=2460 |
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Post by harlem on Jan 9, 2007 7:28:46 GMT -5
Do they say anything about his tasty corn chips?
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