George Allen Frazier (born October 13, 1954) is a former professional

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player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1978–1987, primarily as a set-up reliever. Frazier played

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baseball as a member of "the Hornets", which is the name of the teams at Hillcrest High School in

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. Frazier was offered a college scholarship in baseball, football, and basketball. He was traded from the Milwaukee Brewers to the

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for

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during the

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on December 8, 1977."Cards Trade Hrabosky to Royals for Littell," ''The Associated Press'' (AP), Saturday, December 10, 1977.
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while with the

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, Frazier tied a

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record (with

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) with 3 losses. Williams, however, is widely suspected to have thrown those games in the

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(as part of the Black Sox Scandal), and furthermore, the third game Williams lost was Game Eight - the Series of 1919 through 1921 were best of nine affairs, leaving Frazier as the only pitcher to lose three games in a best of seven World Series. Frazier later won a world championship as a member of the

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. Frazier served as a color analyst for Twins in 1993 and for the Colorado Rockies from 1998 until 2015. Since then he's been doing color commentary for Fox Sports during the Big 12 Baseball championship broadcasts. A son, Matthew Frazier, served as a detective for the Tulsa Police Department and appeared on the A&E television show

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. Another son, Parker Frazier, was drafted in the eighth round of the

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by the Colorado Rockies. His daughter,

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, was crowned

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2015.

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