FRANK Article Archive

  1. Roy Halladay from Toronto Blue Jays' Point of View

    With the list of potential free agents being adequate at best, this Hot Stove season will be heated with potential trades. Leading the list of "Who Will Win The (insert name) Sweepstake" is Roy Halladay...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 4 days ago 284 reads 3 comments

  2. NFL All-Decade Team: 2000-2009

    As we pass the middle of the 2009, the first decade of the Y2k is coming to an end. This slideshow will honor the best players at each position, as we identify the NFL All Decade Team for the 2000s...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 9 days ago 131 reads 0 comments

  3. The Great Muta: International Superstar Keiji Mutoh

    Keiji Mutoh, the current President of All Japan Pro Wrestling, is well known globally as The Great Muta. Mutoh was one of the quickest and most exciting wrestlers to ever compete in Professional Wrestling...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 17 days ago 204 reads 13 comments

  4. Top 50 Wrestlers: Ranked by Pro Wrestling Illustrated (Number 50-36)

    This ranking is a follow-up to the tag team series that was written in October, which was a pleasure to write and fun to go down memory lane...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 22 days ago 797 reads 19 comments

  5. Match of the Decade: Ranking Pro Wrestling Illustrated Annual Winners (1990s)

    Each year since 1972, Pro Wrestling Illustrated has recognized the best match of the year as voted on by the readers of the magazine...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about about 1 month ago 781 reads 26 comments

  6. Ranking the Giants of Professional Wrestling

    Here's a tribute to the big, large and gigantic men of wrestling. Dating back to the 1950s, gargantuan men were booked to be an attraction as if they worked for the circus. They normally didn't hold titles, yet they were difficult to defeat...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about about 1 month ago 664 reads 14 comments

  7. Ranking The Top 50 Tag Teams: The PWI Years (9-1)

    I like to thank everyone for reading these articles. It was fun to go down memory lane with the many tag teams that I grew up reading about and watching. It was no surprise that many of the tag teams made their mark in the '80s...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about about 1 month ago 398 reads 28 comments

  8. Ranking The Top 50 Tag Teams: The PWI Years (19-10)

    This the third installment of listing the top tag teams that Pro Wrestling Illustrated compiled in 2003. If you are interested, here is the first part and here is the second part...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about about 1 month ago 422 reads 17 comments

  9. Ranking the Top 50 Tag Teams: The PWI Years (34-20)

    Here's the second installment in listing the top tag teams since Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) was established (1979). The list was compiled and ranked by PWI in 2003 and included many tag teams who fought in Japan...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about about 1 month ago 319 reads 8 comments

  10. Ranking The Top 50 Tag Teams: The PWI Years (50-35)

    In 2003, Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) compiled a list of the top 100 tag teams during the "PWI Years", which originated in 1979...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about about 1 month ago 415 reads 10 comments

  11. The Great Mind Behind ECW: Paul Heyman

    I just finished watching the The Rise and Fall of ECW and wanted to write an article about this organization and the impact it had in Pro Wrestling during the 1990s. But I wanted to write an article that wasn't soley a review of the DVD...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 2 months ago 475 reads 9 comments

  12. The Great Raid: How the WWF Took Over Wrestling (Part II)

    The first installment focused on laying down the foundation by providing high level details of the state of wrestling in 1983 and before...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 3 months ago 215 reads 16 comments

  13. The Great Raid: How The WWF Took Over Wrestling (Part I)

    In 1983, Vincent J. McMahon sold his company to his son Vincent K. McMahon who was ready to take the company to next level. No one knew that this transaction was the beginning of the collapse of competitive wrestling...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 3 months ago 214 reads 16 comments

  14. The Top 10 Hitting Seasons in Phillies History

    Though the Phillies organization goes back to 1883, when they were known as the Quakers, we will only go back to 1929 to identify the top hitting seasons in Phillies history. Please note that a player will only appear on this list once...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 5 months ago 105 reads 2 comments

  15. The Top 10 Hitting Seasons in Mets History

    This slide show will rank the best hitting seasons in Mets history. Similar to the previous article, which listed the best pitching seasons, a player will only be ranked once...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 5 months ago 148 reads 11 comments

  16. We Are Family: Ranking the Top Stables of the 20th Century

    Stables is a group of wrestlers within a promotion who have a common element (friendships, a common manager, or a common storyline) Stables can be small alliances of three to six wrestlers or ...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 5 months ago 478 reads 9 comments

  17. Take Your Money And Shove It: Wrestlers Who Never Fought In WWF/E

    It was so common to have wrestlers fight in all three major organization during their career (AWA, NWA, WWE). Most of the time the wrestler would start in an independent or regional circuit and then work themselves up to the NWA and AWA...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 579 reads 24 comments

  18. Who Had the Best Season: Ranking the NY Mets' Pitchers

    Since the 1960s, the Mets pitching staff usually stands out as one of the best in baseball. Not sure why we never experience a no hitter! But that's another story. In the 60s & 70s, Seaver and Koosman reigned surpremed at Shea...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 150 reads 7 comments

  19. Listen Up, This Is a Robbery: MLB's 16 Most Lopsided Trades of the '80s

    This is the third and final article relating to ranking the decade's most lopsided trades. I'm proud to say that the first two articles (21st century and 1990s) were successful in terms of reader contribution...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 590 reads 14 comments

  20. The Making of a World Series Champion: 1986 New York Mets

    While reviewing the Mets transactions during the 80s, I couldn't believe the abundance of trades that favored the Mets during that period...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 154 reads 4 comments

  21. Listen Up, This Is a Robbery: Baseball's 12 Most Lopsided Trades of the 1990s

    My first article listed the 12 most lopsided trades in the 21st century. The Bartolo Colon trade was ranked number one. Here is the link to the article, if interested. This article will rank the 12 most lopsided trades of the 1990s...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 19,552 reads 51 comments

  22. Analyzing the Cincinnati Reds: The May 9 Edition

    Prior to Spring Training, I wrote an article that provided an analysis of the 2009 Cincinnati Reds and why they may be considered this year's version of the Rays. http://bleacherreport...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 214 reads 0 comments

  23. Ranking the MLB Top 15 Rookie of the Year Seasons Since 1980

    Since 1980, there have been 58 Rookie Of The Year (ROY) winners. Some of the winners were a flash in the pan, some have put together stats that are Hall-of-Fame worthy, but most had solid careers which spanned a dozen of years...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 6 months ago 280 reads 6 comments

  24. Looking Back on the Toronto Blue Jays' Back-to-Back World Series Championships

    From 1983 through 1991, no team had a better record than the Toronto Blue Jays, led by George Bell, Tony Fernandez, Jesse Barfield, Fred McGriff, Jimmy Key, Dave Stieb, and Tom Henke. The Blue Jays won 85+ games every year, including three 90+ seasons...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 7 months ago 396 reads 5 comments

  25. Pittsburgh Pirates: Willie to Barry to Nate

    With the song "We Are Family" glaring from the speakers in Three Rivers Stadium, the Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 7-1, in Game Five of the 1979 World Series to extend the series...

    FRANK Written by FRANK about 7 months ago 127 reads 3 comments

 
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