# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ford-christopher-frick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:31:10.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ford-christopher-frick"
name: "Ford Christopher Frick"
slug: "ford-christopher-frick"
description: "Ford Christopher Frick was an American sportswriter and baseball executive. After working as a teacher and as a sportswriter for the New York American, he served as public relations director of the National League (NL) and then as the league's president from 1934 to 1951. He was the third commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1951 to 1965."
tagline: "American baseball administrator (1894-1978)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ford_Frick_at_1937_All-Star_Game_(cropped_and_adjusted).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1894-12-19"
deathDate: "1978-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             2.517482517482518
  historical:           6.805369333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Frick"
    title: "Ford Frick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فورد فريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Frick"
    title: "Ford Frick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Frick"
    title: "Ford Frick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Frick"
    title: "Ford Frick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "フォード・フリック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%AC%EB%93%9C_%ED%94%84%EB%A6%AD"
    title: "포드 프릭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3077090"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump