Frank Oliver Howard was born on August 8, 1936 in Columbus, Ohio to John and Erma Howard. His dad was a large man, 6’4″ over 200 pounds. He worked as a machinist for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in Columbus. His mother was a homemaker. Frank was the third of six children. The family lived in a modest frame house. “There was always lots of food on the table” Howard remembered, “but if we kids wanted money, we had to go out and earn it”. Frank shined shoes, caddied, and did the hard manual labor befitting his size. ” When I was 14:, he recalled, ” I worked a 100-pound jackhammer in the streets for the city of Columbus, got paid maybe a dollar and a half an hour, and was glad to get it.
Player Profile: Frank Howard
