Frank Hyde
Frank Hyde
Frank Hyde was sports editor at The Post-Journal for 35 years and in that time he did more than just cover sports. He promoted boxing events and started a youth baseball program in the Southwestern Central School area and coached a team for six years.
Hyde was named president of the National Baseball Writers Association (Minor League) and was statistician for the New York-Pennsylvania League for six years. Upon his retirement from the The Post-Journal in 1979, the NY-P League established the "Frank Hyde Award" given to the media member who does the most to publicize the league.
Before arriving in Jamestown, Hyde, who was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, was a top wrestler in high school and then wrestled professionally for three years before an injury forced his retirement.
His writing career began in Seattle and continued in Minneapolis, Billings, Montana, and Salt Lake City before he came to The Post-Journal.
After his retirement, Hyde continued to write his popular "Frankly Speaking" column and numerous features until his death on May 24, 1984.
Frank Hyde was inducted into the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
Frank Hyde's column was a popular sports page feature.
Frank Hyde
Former Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was one of the
many famous sports figures
interviewed by Frank Hyde.
One of Hyde's earliest journalistic experience was report-
ing on the Jack Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons heavy-
weight
fight in Shelby, Montana.
Help locating inductee families sought
Jimmy Clark
(1914-1994)
Tommy Leach
(1877-1969)
Roger K. Moore
(1929-1977)
If you can help please e-mail
info@chautauquasportshalloffame.org
or call Randy Anderson at 716-763-2173.
1983 Hall of Fame Inductees
Video Archive
The Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame has a collection of DVD's chronicling sports in Chautauqua County, the Hall of Fame inductees and interviews with sports personalities. They are available for viewing by visitors at the hall. See the complete list on our video archive page.
