TCBA Yearbook

TCBA Member Profile

  INDEX

Seasons
1902  1903 
1904
1905  1906  1907 1908  1909  1910

1911  1912  1913
1914  1915  1916 1917  1918  1919

1920

1921  1922  1923
1924  1925  1926 1927  1928  1929

1930  1931  1932
1933  1934  1935 1936  1937  1938
1939

1940  1941  1942
1943  1944  1945 1946  1947  1948
1949

1950  1951  1952
1953  1954  1955 1956  1957  1958
1959

1960  1961  1962
1963  1964  1965 1966  1967  1968
1969

1970  1971  1972
1973  1974  1975 1976  1977  1978
1979

1980  1981  1982
1983  1984  1985 1986  1987  1988
 1989 

1990  1991  1992
1993  1994  1995 1996  1997  1998
1999

2000  2001  2002
2003  2004  2005 2006  2007  2008
 2009 

2010  2011  2012
2013  2014  2015 2016  2017  2018
  2019  

2020  2021  2022
2023  2024  2025 2026  2027  2028
   2029    

Miscellaneous
Foreword 1
Foreword II
Introduction
The Ad
The Letter
The Test
First Newsletter
Yesterday
Gold
Origins

TCBA Almanac

Frank Lentine

47 year old Chemist

Binghamton, New York

Married Millie Henning on May 6, 1995

Binghamton Crabbs

      I don’t have the energy and enthusiasm I had for APBA 10-20 years ago. There are just so many other things that seem to take priority these days. Coupling this with the overall state of Major League Baseball, I find it hard to sustain the interest I used to have. Still, I love the competition and the game. The TCBA remains a unique cast of individuals with whom I can’t easily part. Hopefully we’ll all be around for another 20 years.

      I am currently the 7th owner of this TCBA/AL franchise, which has had eight name changes in its history. Ironically it won the TCBA Championship in 1978 as the Greylock Gators under the direction of my late neighbor and friend, Jerry Siciliano, who passed away from Hodgkin’s Disease several years ago. Many will remember Jerry as quite a character. His major flaw was his acid pen, which in the end got him banned from TCBA. I miss Jerry. We both had a love for UMass basketball and attended many a game together.

 Bob Wood - Who could ever forget the late inning rallies and telephone histrionics of the Italian madman,  the late Jerry Siciliano?

 Bob Braun - Once, while I was in Scottsdale, Arizona attending my very first sales conference with Simon & Schuster, I received an angry phone call message left in my hotel room by Jerry. Along with that was another message from Meg, telling me about some lunatic named Jerry Silly-O, or something like that, who had called and screamed at her. She became so upset she gave him the number of the hotel I was in. It was early December, so I guess Jerry was looking for some season-ending stats, or something. I also suffered some late-inning losses to Jerry, something that seemed more common with the dice. I wonder why the computer doesn’t do that?

 Frank Lentine - The team fell on hard times following Jerry’s departure in 1979. Re-emerging in 1985 as the Leesville Hurricanes after a year of inactivity, the franchise posted its best single season record of 102 wins. The 1994 season concluded my 5th year at the helm, producing the first playoff team since that 1985 squad. No other individual has owned this franchise for more than four years.

Prior to 1990, I operated the North Adams franchise in the National League as a charter member of TCBA. During that 15-year stretch the team won a division title, made two playoff appearances, and finished second six times.

 

<< PreviousNext >>