Frank Howard

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 7 in · 255 lb

BornAugust 8, 1936 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1958

Final gameSeptember 30, 1973

Seasons16 (1958–1973)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1964; Washington Senators 1965–1971; Detroit Tigers 1972; Texas Rangers 1972; Detroit Tigers 1973

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

153

68.8

633

63.4

549

59.8

27.7

153

63.4

68.8

19.6

RBI

81.3

121

5.4

7.1

91.1

.279

66.1

OBP

.367

72.3

SLG

.474

82.1

OPS

.840

79.5

wRC+

135.3

75.9

OPS+

138.2

80.4

wOBA

.375

73.2

sWAR

3.6

61.6

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 492 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

140.2

96.2

OPS+

141.8

96.1

sWAR

48.5

98.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1958	8	30	29	3	7	1	0	1	2	1	11	0	0	.241	.267	.379	.646	59.4	64.5	.287	-0.1
1959	9	23	21	2	3	0	1	1	6	2	9	0	0	.143	.217	.381	.598	46.7	51.8	.265	-0.1
1960	117	487	448	54	120	15	2	23	77	32	108	0	1	.268	.320	.464	.784	109.4	108.1	.348	1.6
1961	92	292	267	36	79	10	2	15	45	21	50	0	1	.296	.347	.517	.864	124.5	125.2	.375	1.5
1962	141	538	493	80	146	25	6	31	119	39	108	1	0	.296	.346	.560	.906	138.7	144.1	.390	3.7
1963	123	459	417	58	114	16	1	28	64	33	116	1	2	.273	.330	.518	.848	148.9	149.5	.374	3.7
1964	134	492	433	60	98	13	2	24	69	51	113	1	0	.226	.303	.432	.735	108.0	113.2	.322	1.5
1965	149	575	516	53	149	22	6	21	84	55	112	0	0	.289	.358	.477	.835	139.9	135.8	.377	4.0
1966	146	549	493	52	137	19	4	18	71	53	104	1	1	.278	.348	.442	.790	128.1	126.1	.353	3.0
1967	149	585	519	71	133	20	2	36	89	60	155	0	1	.256	.338	.511	.849	152.0	151.2	.380	4.8
1968	158	663	598	79	164	28	3	44	106	54	141	0	0	.274	.338	.552	.890	170.0	169.1	.395	6.5
1969	161	702	592	111	175	17	2	48	111	102	96	1	0	.296	.402	.574	.976	173.3	175.9	.431	7.2
1970	161	706	566	90	160	15	1	44	126	132	125	1	2	.283	.416	.546	.962	164.7	169.0	.420	6.7
1971	153	633	549	60	153	25	2	26	83	77	121	1	0	.279	.367	.474	.840	135.3	138.2	.375	3.6
1972	109	368	320	29	78	10	0	10	38	46	63	1	0	.244	.340	.369	.708	114.7	113.9	.331	1.0
1973	85	251	227	26	58	9	1	12	29	24	28	0	1	.256	.327	.463	.789	112.8	115.5	.354	0.3

Career totals

1,895

334th-most career G

7,353

390th-most career PA

6,488

399th-most career AB

864

1,774

430th-most career H

245

382

71st-most career HR

RBI

1,119

214th-most career RBI

782

289th-most career BB

1,460

91st-most career SO

.2734

OBP

.3524

SLG

.4986

132nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8510

192nd-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1970-09-06	DET @ TEX Gameday	6	2	5	0	2	5	0	11
1965-06-02	TEX @ LAA Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	4	0	10
1970-08-29	TEX @ KC Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	5	0	9
1961-04-29	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	6	0	9
1969-05-11	TEX @ MIL Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	5	2	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.