Frank started with a pair of pigeons when he was nine years old on a fire escape in Brooklyn. While in high school, he became interested in racing pigeons when Joe Amico (his mentor) asked Frank to take care of Post Loft in 1951. When Frank he became eighteen, Joe started him off with a team of youngsters and an old Benzing clock, which he has kept to this day. Frank won a 500-mile race when he was nineteen in the Parkway Homing Pigeon Club in Brooklyn, NY. A couple of years later he got drafted in the Army, did his service and then moved around the country. He worked at Cape Canaveral, Florida on the moon-landing project and then moved to Miami.

There Frank had fancy pigeons for 32 years. During this period he met Dave Donnelly and they became very close friends. Dave talked Frank into moving to Brooksville, Florida because Dave became involved in racing pigeons and the American King Cup. Dave was doing very well with his pigeons that he purchased from Mike Ganus. Frank did not move there to race pigeons, but got involved while helping Merl Emerson run his one-loft races. The rest is history. Frank has been active in both the GHC and FSI racing clubs. He has his share of winning plus had a Hall of Fame winner in 2008. This same bird is the sire of his Classic Winner who was mated to a Silvere Toye hen given to him by Bruce Burnett. She is a very nice Blue Check hen who won against the best flyers in the GHC with 2152 birds and 113 Lofts in the Classic Race. Dave Donnelly (Boomerang Loft) did an excellent job as a handler because he got six birds on the front page and in the money. Donnelly also clocked Frank’s second bird that came in 34th in the Classic.

Frank flies to perches and feed Browns feed. His system is simple and clean and says the main thing is to study your birds. John Weeks was instrumental in helping Frank this year obtaining several wins and placements on the front sheet.