sentences:  Frankhouse began his baseball career in his teens by playing with local teams in Perry and Dauphin counties, and, from 1917 to 1923, he pitched for the minor league Harrisburg Senators.He was only 19 when a scout brought him from the lots of his home town of Port Royal, Pennsylvania.He signed his first professional contract with St. Louis in 1922 and was farmed out to the Ottawa Senators (1922–23), the Syracuse Stars (1923–26), and the Houston Buffaloes (1927).