One of baseball’s most feared hitters, the gigantic slugger belted the final home run for the old Washington Senators in 1971.
Slugger Frank Howard of the Washington Senators working out before a game with Detroit Tigers on May 18, 1968. Mr. Howard later hit two home runs in game and set a major league home run record. When Major League Baseball returned to Washington in 2005, the Nationals played their games at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. It had been 34 years since the city had a baseball team, but the stadium still held remnants of its last star before the game went away.
In 1963, when he helped lead the Dodgers to a four-game sweep over the New York Yankees in the World Series, he hit what was called “the longest double in the 41-year history of Yankee Stadium” off Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford. During his streak, Mr. Howard told the Hartford Courant in 2001, “I was thinking, somebody’s going to flip me” — throw at him — “pretty soon, because it’s part of our business. I thought someone was going to put a part in my hair, but they didn’t, so I figured I’ll settle in and keep cool. It was a fun week. Man alive, you’d like to crank like that for a couple of months.”
“That son-of-a-gun is the biggest and strongest hitter who ever played this game, and that includes Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg — all of them,” Williams, said in 1969. “Nobody ever hit the ball harder and further, nobody.” Frank Oliver Howard was born Aug. 8, 1936, in Columbus, Ohio. His father was a railroad machinist, his mother a homemaker.Mr. Howard, who weighed more than 13 pounds at birth, was never a graceful athlete, but his sheer size made him a highly recruited basketball player. At Ohio State, he averaged 20 points a game and was named to several All-America teams. He still holds the school record for most rebounds in a game, with 32.
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