STATISTICS & HISTORY
Frank Garcia was a baseball and basketball star at South High School in Akron, Ohio. Garcia was a fixture on the Akron sports scene for the next two decades as the star of independent basketball and baseball teams. In 1945, Garcia was named the outstanding player in the National Baseball Federation Tournament. In 1948, Garcia led an Akron squad to the finals of of the World Series of the American Baseball Congress. Garcia briefly played minor league professional baseball , but his career was stalled by injuries. Garcia played professional basketball for three seasons with Cleveland in the National Basketball League. In 1956, Garcia suffered a brain hemorrhage and passed away at the age of 36.
| FRANK GARCIA | Height: | 6:00 | Weight: | 175 | College: | None | |||||
| Frank Francis Garcia | Born: | May 1, 1917 | Died: Jan 24, 1956 | Hometown: | Akron, Oh. | ||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1938-39 | Akron O’Neills | AAU | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Akron Seiberlings | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | Akron Seiberlings | Indep | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Akron Seiberlings | Indep | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | Akron Steinbergers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Akron Shulans | Indep | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Akron Steinbergers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1943-44 | Cleveland | NBL | 7 | 8 | 7 | 9 | .778 | 23 | 3.3 | ||
| 1944-45 | Cleveland | NBL | 25 | 16 | 8 | 18 | .444 | 40 | 1.6 | ||
| 1945-46 | Cleveland | NBL | 7 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 2.1 | ||||
| 1945-46 | Akron Goodrich | Indep | |||||||||
| 1946-47 | Akron Borden Autos | Indep | |||||||||
| 1947-48 | Akron Borden Autos | Indep | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 39 | 31 | 16 | 78 | 2.0 | ||||||
| POST SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1943-44 | Cleveland | NBL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2.0 | ||||
| 1943-44 | Cleveland | WBT | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .000 | 6 | 3.0 | ||
| 1944-45 | Cleveland | NBL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 1944-45 | Cleveland | WBT | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .333 | 1 | 1.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 7 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 1.6 | ||||||