During Frick's term as commissioner, expansion occurred and MLB faced the threat of having its antitrust exemption revoked by Congress.

[1] He took classes at International Business College in Fort Wayne, then worked for a company that made engines for windmills.

When other reporters had flown in to cover the flood their airplanes had become stuck in muddy conditions, leaving them stranded in Pueblo.

[8] A Communist Party USA newspaper known as the Daily Worker asked Frick in 1937 about the feasibility of racially integrating baseball.

Disingenuously,[a] he asserted that he was not aware of a case in which race had played a role in the selection of a major league player.

[12] In the late 1930s, Frick played a central role in establishing the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

They took the idea to the Baseball Writers' Association of America and that organization became the voting body for Hall of Fame elections.

[14] When several members of the St. Louis Cardinals planned to protest Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier, Frick threatened any players involved with suspension.

In September, the owners elected Frick to replace Chandler in a twelve-hour meeting that the Chicago Tribune called "their all-time peak in dilly-dallying".

In response, Frick overruled the fan vote, removed two Reds from the starting lineup and appointed two replacements from other teams.

[2] Writer Jerome Holtzman described Frick's term as commissioner by saying that he "sailed a smooth course and seldom descended from his throne.

Frick's most highly criticized decision as commissioner was to request baseball record-keepers to list the single-season home run records of Babe Ruth and Roger Maris separately in 1961, based on the length of the season played.

Highlighted in all of this was, undoubtedly, Roger Maris' aforementioned shattering of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

Alarmed by such increased home run numbers across the Majors, Frick convinced the owners to agree to having the strike zone widened before the 1963 season.

He said that his remaining goals for his term as commissioner were to complete the expansion process and to convince Congress to allow each baseball league to set its own television policies.

[29] His son Fred attended Fordham Preparatory School with future baseball executive Buzzie Bavasi.

[30] Near the end of Frick's term as commissioner, he purchased a second home in Broadmoor, Colorado, though he maintained his primary residence in New York.

Upon his death, commissioner Bowie Kuhn said Frick "brought the game integrity, dedication and a happy tranquility far removed from the turbulence of today.