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This Date in Baseball - Julio Franco breaks his own record for oldest player to hit a pinch-hit HR
2004 — Atlanta’s 45-year-old Julio Franco broke his own record for the oldest player to hit a pinch-hit homer. Franco, who ...
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A short history of the tallest players in D.C. baseball lore
who played baseball and basketball at St. John’s College High. From 6-foot-7 slugger Frank Howard, whose prodigious home runs for the expansion Washington Senators at RFK Stadium were marked ...
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A short history of the tallest players in D.C. baseball lore
“Slim was as wild and ineffective as he is tall, which is saying something,” Frank H ... State outfielder Frank Howard on Sept. 14, 1958. Howard, who chose baseball after being drafted ...