RIP FRANK HOWARD

He had 382 HRs and won the World Series with the Dodgers...

He was 87...

Mammoth human being, power in every fiber. In a day and age where he was really different than any other ballplayer. RIP, Frank!

I've been to few MLB games, but in the summer of 1967 my family took a trip West. Disneyland...Yosemite...Grand Canyon....One of the stops was to the Angels/Senators game on 6/28. As an avid Pee Wee I knew who Frank Howard was so I've always remembered him hitting one out.

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Very friendly man,also had a great basketball career at Ohio State University

In his final years, Frank lived in Aldie, VA, a small, upscale rural area about 40 miles west of DC. I live two towns over. Alcohol in Virginia can only be sold in state-run stores. The closest to both of us is in Middleburg, VA. That store has on display a couple of Frank Howard-signed baseballs. I used to always look for him when I went in to buy something, but I never had the fortune. But, I always thought it was way cool for him to have signed baseballs for the guys that sold him liquor!

Concurring that he was one of a kind in his day.

His size all by itself made him a very menacing figure in the batters box. But he swung his bat in a hard, looping, lurching, all-arms-and-head way that was frightening to see. He just pulverized the ball when he made contact.

He loved LHP, and my Tigers' Mickey Lolich could not get him out. Pitchers were unanimous that his home runs were almost all wicked line drives that rose as they left the yard.

I loved that when he was with the Senators, his nickname other than Hondo was "Capital Punishment."

He finished his career with the Tigers and shared the first DH position with Gates Brown in '73.

I was surprised that he was named manager of a couple of teams after his career. He certainly did not fit that mold when he was playing. In fact, when he was with the Dodgers, he had a tendency to sulk a little, and they had to talk him out of retirement and to report to Spring Training from his home in Wisconsin a couple of times.

I would love to try his ATG 9 cards someday, but in all honesty, they aren't that good in the non-DH format I prefer. His glove and legs are big liabilities.

RIP, Hondo.

I started using him as a DH...

He's been worth every penny of his 6.25M$...