Frank Betcher
Baseball
He played Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1910 under the name Frank Betcher. He started out his career playing for Johnstown, Pennsylvania in the Tri-State League. While there, he was demoted. Disappointed, he asked the manager why he was demoted. The manager responded that he lacked enthusiasm. Bettger told the manager: "I\'m just trying to hide my nervousness." The manager advised: "Try something else. That\'s not working." From that moment on, he played with vigorous enthusiasm and worked his way up to the majors with St. Louis, until his baseball career was cut short by an arm injury.[citation needed]\n', '
After his brief baseball career, Bettger returned to his native Philadelphia, where he started collecting accounts for a furniture store on a bike. He then started selling life insurance for the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania but wa…
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