Editing Harry Frazee (section)

== Early life==
Harry Frazee was born June 29, 1880, in [[Peoria, Illinois]], son of William and Margaret Frazee. He attended [[Peoria High School (Peoria, Illinois)|Peoria High School]], where he was a baseball teammate of [[Harry Bay]], who later played for Major League Baseball teams in Cincinnati and Cleveland. At 16, Frazee became assistant manager of the Peoria Theater. Within a year, he was player-coach of the [[Peoria Distillers]] semi-pro baseball club. As his theatrical endeavors continued, Frazee moved to [[Chicago]], where he built the Cort Theater in 1907.

After several successful shows, Frazee went to [[New York City]], where in 1913 he built the [[Longacre Theatre]] on West 48th Street and staged hit plays such as ''[[Fine Feathers (play)|Fine Feathers]]'' by [[Eugene Walter (playwright)|Eugene Walter]] and the musical ''[[Adele (musical)|Adele]]''. He also promoted a boxing match between [[Jess Willard]] and [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]] on April 5, 1915 in [[Havana, Cuba]] and was reported by then to be a millionaire.

Frazee was a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=December 26: The "Jew" Who Sold Babe Ruth |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/december-26-the-jew-who-sold-babe-ruth |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Jewish Currents |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Harry Frazee and the Red Sox – Society for American Baseball Research |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/harry-frazee-and-the-red-sox/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>