What is Jim Frey?
[[File:Jim Frey (manager) - Kansas City Royals.jpg|right|200px]] '''James Gottfried Frey''' (May 26, 1931 – April 12, 2020) was an American [[manager (baseball)|manager]] and [[coach (baseball)|coach]] in [[Major League Baseball]]. He led the [[Kansas City Royals]] to their first [[American League]] championship in 1980. In the [[1980 World Series|World Series]], they lost to the [[Philadelphia Phillies]]. He also managed the [[Chicago Cubs]]. Frey was born in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. He died on April 12, 2020 in [[Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida]] at the age of 88.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/sports/baseball/jim-frey-dead.html|title=Jim Frey, Manager Who Flirted With Championships, Dies at 88|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 14, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/freyji99.shtml Baseball Reference – Major League Managerial Record] {{baseballstats | brm=frey--001jam}} *[http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/1245e7ca SABR Project Biography] *[http://www.purapelota.com/lvbp/mostrar.php?id=freyjam001 Venezuelan League Batting Statistics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406173223/http://www.purapelota.com/lvbp/mostrar.php?id=freyjam001 |date=2016-04-06 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Frey, Jim}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Chicago Cubs managers]] [[Category:Kansas City Royals]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Cleveland]] {{US-sports-bio-stub}}