Frank Pastore Stats & Facts
Frank Pastore Essentials
Positions:
Bats: R Throws: R
Height: 74 Weight: 188
Born: Wednesday, August 21, 1957 in Alhambra, CA USA
Died: 12 17 2012 in Upland, CA USA
Debut: 4/4/1979
Last Game: 9/5/1986
Full Name: Frank Enrico Pastore
Frank Pastore born on August 21, 1957
On June 3, 1975 he was drafted by the Reds in the 2nd round of the 1975 amateur draft, just shortly after graduating as valedictorian of the 1975 class of Damien High School in La Verne, California.
He made his major league debut on April 4, 1979, at Riverfront Stadium, pitching three scoreless innings in a loss to the San Francisco Giants.
His record as a Red was 45 – 57 with a 4.30 ERA. He threw 523 strikeouts to only 277 walks. In the Reds 1979 Post Season he pitched 7 innings in one game with a 2.57 ERA, without a decision.
In his personal life…. After baseball, he (a former atheist) went back to school, graduating with a degree in business administration from National University in 1989. He then spent the next two years with the national leadership of Athletes in Action, the sports ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ. He then attended the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, graduating -summa cum laude- with an MA in philosophy of religion and ethics in 1994. In 2003, he completed his second master’s degree, in political philosophy and American government, from Claremont Graduate School.
On January 5, 2004, he became the host of “The Frank Pastore Show” on KKLA-FM in Los Angeles, which became one of the largest Christian talk shows in the United States.
In 2011, he authored “Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed”, a book recounting how he became a born-again Christian during recovery from his 1984 pitching arm injury.
On November 19, 2012, during his radio show while discussing how his faith affects his view of death, Pastore said:
“…you guys know I ride a motorcycle, don’t you? So, at any moment, especially with the idiot people who cross the diamond lane into my lane, all right, without any blinkers — not that I’m angry about it, but at any minute I could be spread out all over the 210 (Freeway).”
That same day, he was critically injured on the Foothill (210) Freeway in Duarte, California, when a woman from Glendora, California, driving a Hyundai Sonata, collided with his Honda VTX 1800, throwing him off the motorcycle. He was hospitalized in critical condition with serious head injuries. Less than a month later, on December 17, 2012, he died from pneumonia and other complications of his injuries at the age of 55.
His wife Gina wrote a follow-up book after his death, “Picking Up My Shattered Pieces”.