Frank Norberg

Frank Norberg, born Jeremiah Francis Norberg and living from 1948 to 20 February 2018, was an Irish hurler from Blackrock in Cork whose league and championship career with the Cork senior team lasted four seasons from 1969 to 1973. Raised in a strong hurling family, he had a grandfather, Jer Norberg, who won an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medal with Cork in 1893. He came through the juvenile and underage grades at Blackrock, with whom he won All-Ireland Club SHC medals in 1972, 1974 and 1979, four Munster Club SHC medals and five county championship medals. Selected for the Cork minor team in 1966, he was an All-Ireland minor runner-up, then won back-to-back All-Ireland under-21 medals in 1968 and 1969 and made his senior debut in the 1969 Oireachtas Cup. Over four seasons he won one Munster SHC medal and one National League medal.