Dr. Frommer, dubbed "Dartmouth's own Mr. Baseball" by the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, received his Ph.D. from New York University. Professor Emeritus, City University of New York, he has been a professor in the MALS program at Dartmouth College since 1992, where he has taught courses in oral history and culture and sports journalism.

Distinguished Professor nominee, and recipient of the "Salute to Scholars Award" at CUNY, where he taught writing for many years. He was cited in the Congressional Record and by the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist.

Frommer's many sports books include: autobiographies of sports legends Nolan Ryan, Red Holzman and Tony Dorsett, Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball, New York City Baseball: 1947-1957, the New York Yankee Encyclopedia, A Yankee Century, Red Sox vs Yankees: The Great Rivalry (with Frederic J. Frommer), and Five O'Clock Lightning: The 1927 Yankees. His Remembering Yankee Stadium (2008) and his Remembering Fenway Park (2011) are his latest books.