Frank Dasso

Frank Joseph Nicholas Dasso (August 31, 1917 – June 8, 2009) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds during the 1945 and 1946 seasons.

He was sent to a Roman Catholic orphanage for boys when he was six years old, where a nun named Mary Rouck first got him involved in tossing around the baseball.

He attended Chicago's Lane Technical College Prep High School, where he never lost a game during his four years there as the team's starting pitcher.

In 1936, Dasso played in the Red Sox organization for the Canton Terriers of the Class C Middle Atlantic League, finishing with a 4–7 record in 16 games and an Earned run average (ERA) of 3.86.

[4] While pitching for the Little Rock Travelers of the Southern Association later that season, Dasso threw a perfect game against the Memphis Chicks on April 21, 1939.

[4] The Cincinnati Reds bought his rights from the Padres, after Dasso led the Pacific Coast League in strikeouts for the 1944 season.

[4] On the 1949 Solons, Dasso was part of a rotation that included Bob Gillespie, Orval Grove and Ken Holcombe, described by John B.