Frank Martin Seward (April 7, 1921 – April 12, 2004) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

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. He played for the

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. Raised in

Pennsauken Township, New Jersey Pennsauken Township is a township in Camden County, in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and it is located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which it borders directly on the Delaware River. As of the 2 ...

, Seward played prep baseball at

Merchantville High School Merchantville High School was a four-year public high school that operated from 1929 until 1972 in Merchantville, in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Merchantville School District. History The school, w ...

, graduating in 1939, before enrolling at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

and pitching for the Blue Devils baseball team.Ramsay, Jack
"Pennsauken Hurler Will Rejoin Giants in Spring"
'' Evening Courier'', October 26, 1945. Accessed January 15, 2025. "Frank Seward is back home in Pennsauken from the Pacific Coast League wars and a stretch with the 1945 champs, the San Francisco Seals.... He was graduated from Merchantville High school in 1939 and until 1942 attended Duke University, where Jack Coombs, former A's mound ace, coached."

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1921 births 2004 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers New York Giants (baseball) players Duke Blue Devils baseball players Sportspeople from Pennsauken Township, New Jersey Baseball players from Camden County, New Jersey Hollywood Stars players Jersey City Giants players Newport News Builders players San Francisco Seals (baseball) players Springfield Rifles players Sunbury Reds players Syracuse Chiefs players 20th-century American sportsmen Merchantville High School alumni {{US-baseball-pitcher-1920s-stub