I in my earlier teenage years, grew up listening to the Dodgers, my favorite team, with Frank Howard and the rest of the team. At one time, during that era, I think someone named him 'the blue flame' for his long ball homers. I would have loved to be his neighbor, I always thought he was a gentle giant and a great player.

Thanks for the insight,
Ron Rowles

PS. I'm going to forward this page to my brother, who also was glued to our pocket transistor radios to catch the games.

One of my best baseball memories is being about 11 years old and at a game at Fenway. The Senators were warming up just before the game. When they were done all the players ran in except one. We were sitting on the left field side where the wall goes up and meets the green monster. Frank came over looked up to us and said "How you doing boys?" and some other small talk. He threw a ball up to us and walked away. My friend Eddy McVey caught the ball. As he walked away we looked at him, he appeared to be giant to us kids. And from everything I've heard about him he truely was a giant of a man.

I was surfing and searching, looking for info on Frank Howard and your blog came up. I was wondering where Frank moved to? He was a boyhood idle of mine when I lived outside Washington, DC and he was with the Senators. I can't find him in any of the MLB rosters anymore, last time I saw him, he was coaching for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but as I mentioned, he's not on their roster anymore. Any info would by appreciated.

Jim Daly
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As kids, my friend Joe and I used to attend Burlington Bees games. We used to "sneak" down to the box seat section right next to the opposing team's dugout on the first base side.

We talked to many players from the opposing teams, but will never forget Frank Howard of the Green Bay Dodgers. To us he was a giant! He was always friendly to us.

I have many memories of seeing Frank play. In one game he must have missed a curve ball by two feet, and then the next thing you know, he hit a towering home run not just over the center field fence, but the light standards as well. The ball was estimated to have traveled over 600 feet! Unbelieveable! The PA announcer reported that it "went into orbit" (just the year before was the Sputnik space flight).

Some of the fans (not Joe and I) used to yell "hi-pockets" to him when he came to bat. He was just out of school, and I think this may have upset him.

Joe and I saw a number future major leaguers play an those years including Billy Williams, Jim Brewer, Boog Powell, Zoilo Versalles, and Denis Menke, but none were as unforgetable as Frank Howard.

When I was 18 and lived in Los Angeles, I used to babysit
for Frank and Carol Howard. At the time they had two children a little boy named Timmy and a little girl.
That was the greatest summer. They were the neatest people real people. I will alway remember that.
I wish I knew where he was now....I would love to talk to him