[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Time to introduce you to the Arizona Canyoneers' Pitching Coach, Frank Morton. This personnel profile may be a bit longer than average, but if it is, then so be it. There will be many unpleasant events mentioned in it, but they still will provide important details about him and many people close to him, nevertheless, to hopefully help illustrate his life's circumstances up until now to at least some degree. With no further ado, then, let's start trying to get to know at least a little bit about him, as best as we each can, folks.

Frank Morton was born on December 19, 1909 in Coalinga, California to Lemuel and the former Zylphia Odette Phyllis Hazzard as their sixth son and tenth of fifteen biological children when his parents were still in their early thirties, at most. His parents had produced two sets of twins and a set of triplets before his birth, along with two single-birth deliveries. His parents had been married against their wills while they were still in their middle to late teens, at most, per their respective criminal parents' wishes. His father's side of the family often trafficked in illegal commodities, including, but not limited to, the illegal production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages such as beer, for example. While his mother's side of the family often trafficked many people for various illegal and/or immoral purposes, for example.

He grew up in a family well-entrenched in the world of assorted criminal enterprises from all over the world. And he's really hated that fact quite a bit in his life, from birth to even the current time for him in his life. When he finished high school, not only did he go to college in another state, he took as many of his siblings with him as he then could. But he couldn't take all of them when he left California for college in Missouri, unfortunately, for various reasons then present for him in his life.

It was while he was still attending college in the St. Louis area that he met the Germany-born woman who'd ultimately become his wife. Her name was Saskia Weber, the daughter of a Jewish shopkeeper and his restaurant chef wife, and she had several siblings of her own as well. While her family was still mostly in Germany, she was able to go to the States for college, to study astronomy and other related subjects. Things were starting to heat up in Germany, but the majority of her family was still in it, much to her displeasure. She hoped they would still be safe from harm while she was away from them, though.

Unfortunately, while she was still in the States working towards advanced degrees, the Nazis took power in Germany and nearby countries, and began seizing power more and more power for themselves. And not only in Germany, either. They even seized it in several other countries, taking many people captive, especially Jews and certain others. It wasn't long before they began taking captives that the Nazis began the process of exterminating them in various places at times. Others were forced into work camps or to serve certain people in certain ways against their wills for their survival or the survivals of those sufficiently close to them in their lives as well.

By the time of the 1936 Summer Olympics, much of her family had already been rounded up, at least, if not even killed, and Saskia had been married to Frank for two years. They were, however, unable to directly rescue anyone close enough to her from where they were in the States, much to their mutual dismay and regret, and not only because they weren't able to get into countries now controlled by the Nazis at all. They tried to do what they could, of course, but many of those close to her were killed, made slaves in work camps, or were forced to serve certain people in certain ways against their wills.

Eventually, by the time WWII broke out, Frank and Saskia already had their seen their first four children born as quadruplets in November 1938. Triplets came in August 1941, and then twins in May 1943, followed by a single birth in July 1946. By the end of WWII, the family had moved to Arizona, and settled near Flagstaff, at Justin Geissler's suggestion. Frank and Saskia had met him one day in 1943, before the twins' births, and he had convinced them to move their family there as soon as possible.

Right after the war ended, Justin soon asked Frank if he'd be interested in perhaps signing up with his new baseball team as their first-ever head pitching coach. Frank said he was, and was soon hired as such for the Arizona Canyoneers. Especially after Saskia and several of their older children told him to accept Justin's job offer in no uncertain terms, even, in truth.

The family now lives just west of Flagstaff between there and the Grand Canyon near Williams. Many members of Saskia's family who had survived the war and who didn't want to stay in Europe after it now live near them there, with several spouses and children living with them there. Ultimately, the Holocaust the Nazis had unleashed on far too many people had actually taken the lives of roughly 90% of her family in areas that had been controlled by or invaded by the Nazis, as Frank and Saskia and various other people eventually learned in their respective lives.

Frank and Saskia now work to help survivors of the Holocaust and World War II as much as they can, whenever they can. And they have both vowed to do so for the rest of thier lives, for sure, without reservations of any possible kind. They do not yet know it, but they will have four more children by the middle of October, if enough things go well enough for them and their regrowing family in the meantime.

Picture(s) and certain other information will be shared later as possible and all, I'm sure. The next personnel profile that's most likely to be shared will be the one for the Arizona Canyoneers' Hitting Coach, Craig Lucey. Please watch for it to be posted as soon as possible, of course, folks. Thank you for your time and all, everyone, as always. CD out.