 Frank Colman

Frank Lloyd Colman (March 2, 1918 – February 19, 1983), was a Canadian Major League Baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees.The son of Frederick and Harriet Colman who operated a shoe store on Hamilton Road in London, Ontario, Colman joined the London Majors of the senior Intercounty Baseball League in the mid-1930s (winning the batting title as a pitcher, Most Valuable Player award and a championship in 1936), the Pittsburgh Pirates as a first-baseman-outfielder from 1942 to 1946 and the New York Yankees as an outfielder in 1946 and 1947, where he roomed with the young Yankee catcher Yogi Berra.