Colman opened the season as the starting right fielder with the Yankees, but suffered a leg injury and underwent season-ending surgery.

Colman returned to his hometown of London, Ontario, in 1954 after serving as a player-coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Triple-A International League from 1951 through 1953, a team owned by Canadian sporting legend Jack Kent Cooke.

Colman signed on as player-manager for London Majors' owner and general manager Clare Van Horne in 1954.

The sporting goods store was the meeting place for a number of Londoners interested in forming a baseball league for youths.

The ballgame between the minor-league Toronto Maple Leafs and an all-star team put together by Colman attracted 5,000 fans to Labatt Park.

[1] In a letter to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, Yogi Berra wrote that he visited Colman at his home in Canada on several occasions.

"I've made a lot of friends in baseball through the years, but I'll always remember Frank as one of the most decent and genuine people that I ever met," Berra wrote.