Thought it'd be fun to revisit an old blog post from November 2014, celebrating the great slugger Frank Howard, with my 1974 "Career-Capper", that was also part of (I Believe) my third pack-release a few years back:
As
any of you here know, I have always been a fan of "Hondo" Frank Howard,
and will use any excuse to create a card for the prodigious slugger.
Here's my original write-up for that post so many moons ago:
"Let's pay some respect to the "Capital Punisher", Frank Howard with a 1974 card capping off his awesome career.
You can even consider this a "Missing in Action" card since Howard
put in 85 games and 251 plate appearances in his final season before
calling it a career.
At 6' 7" and 250+ pounds, the man was an absolute beast!
A Rookie of the Year with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1960, he had
his best seasons as a member of the Washington Senators between 1965 and
1971, posting three consecutive years of 40+ homers, leading the league
in 1968 and 1970 with 44 each time.
In between those two he slammed 48 homers, but fell one short of the league lead behind Harmon Killebrew's 49.
By the time "Hondo" retired he hit 382 lifetime home runs, with
1119 runs batted in, 864 runs scored, and 1774 hits in 16 seasons.
I'm definitely going to design a "nicknames of the 70's" card for
him, especially since he had TWO cool ones (mentioned earlier).
