I'm hoping you never make any money from KZfaq. Grifter. It's so sad to see ballplayers in memorabilia shops, even worse when you attempt to monetize their stories. Disgusting.

Mantle hit the ball harder than any man who ever lived Legendary Power.

Thanks for the awesome vid! 🙏⚾️

@@robertpaciullo1540 Foxx, Ruth, Allen no one hit it harder than Mantle

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Fantastic gentleman. Glad he played in Detroit and I got to see him play.It was toward the end of his career.

Thank you.

I saw him when he played for the Dodgers. He was the most feared hitter in baseball for several years.

I was lucky enough to have him as a coach my first year in pro ball. He was the absolute best. Commanded respect from everyone no matter who they were.

This story is absolutely priceless.

I was at the game when I was 12. Great memory of me with my Dad. See my comment above. Mantle was on deck with 2 outs at the end of the 2nd Game. I think it was Tresh who struck out so Mantle didn't get a chance to go 6 for 6.

I love your story!

I was there too for that game! I was 15 . The greatest day of my life. They ripped the Senators 13 to 4. They lost the 2nd game. You may remember that Mantle was in the on deck circle about to pinch hit when the game ended.

I found it interesting that Frank lived in Green Bay. While Mantle was my favorite baseball player, Paul Hornung was my favorite in the NFL. They had more in common than their blonde hair. Both could do it all. Thanks for posting this story. As his career was fading, Hornung scored FIVE touchdowns in 1965. A last hurrah for both stars.......

That is a fact. I saw him sucsscefully run out a few drag bunts during the game of the week in 1968. The announcers were superstoked!

I was at that game. Great memory!

I think that baseball is still going

not anymore, as he is wheelchair bound at this time.

yeah, didn't Howard hit a Home Run outta Tiger Stadium in Detroit!!?! the only one to do it over left field!!?! a friend at the game, said the next time Howard came up to bat, a guy was on the left field roof with a baseball glove and his arms outstretched!!!

I'd like to know more about some of Frank Howard's prodigious home runs. I remember reading newspaper accounts of his home runs the following day. If my memory serves me correctly, did he knock a foul ball over the left field roof at Yankee Stadium in game 1 of the 1963 World Series. I heard about the ball he hit in 1970 over the same roof that was called foul.

So true

John Lau yeah, I talked to HONDO in 1964 at Kansas City when he played for the SENATORS!!!!

I remember 1968 - there was a week when he hit about 10 homers. It seemed like he hit 2 every day that week.

John Lau I clearly remember how Howard towered over all the other players. There was no missing him.

@@h0gwartz Yep, he hit 10 homers in six games, still an MLB record. It could have easily been 11 in six games. I didn't get to go to many games ( I was just a kid), but I was lucky enough to see the first game in that streak. The Tigers rolled in to town, and they were crushing the league that year. Mickey Lolich was the starting pitcher that day for the Tigers. Hondo hit two homers that day, and almost had three; Willie Horton caught one with his back against the fence.

in 1956 when mantle hit 52 hrs, vic wertz was 2nd with 32 in the al.

C. R. Stevens I saw most of those against the Tigers. including the one he put out of the stadium in Detroit in left field over the roof. Probably the longest ball I ever saw. Lolich was pitching.

Believe it or not, I heard about that HR, the last one he hit on that stretch I think. And he did it in 1968 the year of the pitcher. I read where he hit one out of old Yankee Stadium. Wish I could have seen him play.

C. R. Stevens He was massive!

Paul Bunyan at the plate!

C. R. Stevens: Classic FH quote, “How can you pound that lumber tomorrow when you don’t pound that Budweiser tonight?” Love that.

Pretty sure I am.

@@frankhoward7645 Now thats funny! I read the obits from time to time to make sure I'm still alive. I agree Al Kaline was a great player but then again I'm from Detroit. Have a great day.

yeah, I saw all those guys, too!

He could check his swing and hit it out. Fun guy to watch. He sure can talk.

Im awfully late responding but little gems like keeping score of a game from home or on the radio, is lost today. It's a shame. Personally, i'd LOVE to go thru a binder of old Baseball score sheets. I recently found some old handwritten Strat-O-Matic season stats i kept from 1987 and got a real kick out of going thru them.

I remember this game too! As I recall it was the first game of a doubleheader. Yanks won the first game. Mick was rested for the second game, but was in the on deck circle when Stick Michael struck out to end the game, obviously a loss.

@@Mike7911779 Strat was the best! I still have cards from 1963, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75.

I remember watching that game it was on Memorial Day. The mick went 5 for 5. I remember it being about 95 degrees that day. I was about 8 years old.

@@Mike7911779 LOL Strat-O-Matic. Me and my friend played two seasons from 1981 and 1982 cards. Had a draft and we each had 8 super teams. Got to know all the players inside and out. Some of those old cards would be more valuable to me than the regular baseball cards.

Was Drysdale gay? Not there is anything wrong with that.

@@69zenos1 Naw, he gave me head a bunch of times and never said a word to me about being gay. I would have known.

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He really does, Hondo!

excellent.

Frank don't sell yourself short. I saw you hit some monster shots yourself. Nice interview.

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lemaxmas Great guy!

His Home Run total is 67th All-Time ! Up against thousands of players !

@@karlhess7064 He might have been in the top 25 all time when he retired, I'm not quite sure. He also retired with a .273 career batting average. He's still in the top 1000 all time out of around 20,000 who ever played and probably in the top 15 percent of all position players who had long careers.

That is a scary thought. If Frank had been under Ted's tutelage early in his career.

merc cadoosis, While his accomplishments were pretty much unparalleled in the manner he achieved them, I have to disagree. Simply put, he doesn't possess the lifetime numbers to justify it. If one wants to claim he's in the nearly there, but not quite, grouping of players, I wouldn't argue, particularly since he piled up his bona fides in such a pretty abbreviated number of years. Should McGriff get in? His numbers are significantly better, but IMHO, neither of them were dominant players of their eras, by most metrics one can use, old or new school. Naturally, as I see it, Baines is even less qualified, and his election was a sham.

@@mitchellmelkin4078 ''metrics'' Today's generation is hung up on statistics. We old schoolers consider quality of play and impact on the game much more than mere stats. What we used to call "intangibles", not just numbers. While he make not make the HOF, if I were to start a team he'd definitely be on my list as one of the best of all time.

In Big Hondo's days the strike zone was from the top of the shoulders to the bottom of the knees. From the 1980s onward, the K zone shrank from just above the waistline to the top of the knees. In a game of inches, just imagine what an impact that has had on the offensive numbers in MLB. Increase the K zone to what it was in the old days and the numbers for walks, hits, HRs, and other offense would drop dramatically. I'd like to see some one come up with a metrics measure of such numbers.

merc cadoosis, I have only a vague sense of the most common of modern metrics that have changed the game's parameters in the last decade +. At the same time, I'm of a vintage to have seen Howard play at RFK, for about the last half dozen years he did so (and I wasn't an infant during any of that time). I used that word in more of a general interpretation than how it's reflexively reacted to today. While I don't doubt the currency of those intangibles you speak to, it isn't accurate to contend that credence wasn't given to the orthodox statistics (or metrics) that were the qualitative standard, for so many decades of baseball's history. Individual players who filled the role of chemistry producers, or the glue holding a winning organization together, deserve their due, but not if their actual performance, wasn't outstanding in comparison to other greats at their positions, who played contemporaneously. So, Rizzuto may be fondly recalled as being in the middle of a dominant stretch of his team, but his presence in the Hall, can't be justified, IMO. My point is that Howard, save for a 3-4 year period in DC, never was a pacesetter (with league offensive titles to prove it). However stupendous his performances over that brief time, the fact that they weren't close to being duplicated by him, before and after, strongly intimates that enshrinenent isn't genuinely merited.

@@mitchellmelkin4078 Chuck here: Mr Howard had a couple three years that are very note worthy while playing in the Dodgers 'pitchers park'. I saw Howard hit a home run in a WS that was in the loge level deck. He hit them a long ways. Still have his rookie card.

Loved Rizzuto as an announcer. His personality was the greatest.

Horace Clarke ,if you were a fan when he played your a real Yankee Fan After golfing in the late 1960’s The Yankees were on and a guy name Andy Kosko was batting 4th that was the low point in their history . They were bad . The comedy team of Bill White and Phil always made the games interesting .