# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-howard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:42:36.656Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-howard"
name: "Frank Howard"
slug: "frank-howard"
description: "Frank Oliver Howard, nicknamed \"Hondo\", \"the Washington Monument\" and \"the Capital Punisher\", was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played most of his career for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Senators/Texas Rangers franchises. One of the most physically intimidating players in the sport, Howard was 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) tall and weighed between 275 and 295 pounds, according to former Senators/Rangers trainer Bill Zeigler."
tagline: "American baseball player, coach, and manager (1936–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Howard_Dodgers.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1936-08-08"
deathDate: "2023-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.44
  momentum:             6.468253968253967
  historical:           7.53338
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B3%95%E8%98%AD%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E8%8F%AF%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "法蘭克·霍華德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "فرانك هوارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84)"
    title: "فرانك هوارد (لاعب بيسبول)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howard_(baseball)"
    title: "Frank Howard (baseball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howard"
    title: "Frank Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howard"
    title: "Frank Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "フランク・ハワード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howard"
    title: "Frank Howard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5487342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump