[Hankphenom]

Big Frank was a nice man, completely down to earth and totally comfortable in his voluminous skin. His ultra-rare biography is subtitled "The Gentle Giant," and that fits perfectly. The expansion Senators were mostly pathetic, while our real team was being the AL's team of the 1960s in Minnesota. But we did have Frank Howard, and there's a reason he has a statue at Nats Park along with Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson, two of the greatest ever to play the game. He may not have been a HOFer, but nobody ever hit a ball like Frank did, not even Babe Ruth.