Henry Bjorkman (October 29, 1901 – August 9, 1974) was an American football player and coach and businessman.
[2][3][4] After graduating from Dartmouth in 1925, Bjorkman served for two years as an assistant football coach under Bill Alexander at Georgia Tech.
[1] Bjorkman later worked in the stock brokerage business and became a partner in the Wall Street firm Spencer Trask & Company.
During World War II, he served as an intelligence officer in the United States Army Air Forces, holding the rank of major.
Starting in 1949, Bjorkman rented a shop near his home on East 88th Street in Manhattan, where he made thousands of hand-crafted and inscribed bats as gifts for boys in orphanages and corrective farms.