Whipped Cream Difficulties

Tyler Christopher, actor. Other credits include “20.0 Megaquake”, “Super Volcano” (both of those were Asylum movies), “Boomtown”, “Crossing Jordan” (the “Quincy” of the 2000s except it sucked), and “CSI: Original Recipe“.

Frank Howard, player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Washington Senators.

As a Dodger in 1960, he hit a ball over the left-field wall at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh that was found alongside a parked car some 560 feet from home plate.
Batting against Whitey Ford in Game 1 of the 1963 World Series, at the original Yankee Stadium, he hit a drive that landed, in fair territory, just to the left of the monuments to Yankee greats in center field, about 460 feet from home plate. He lumbered only as far as second base in what has been called the longest double in Yankee Stadium history.
In Game 4, he hit a 450-foot homer off Ford into the left-field mezzanine at Dodger Stadium, in a 2-1 victory that completed a Dodger sweep of the Series.
Howard drove in 1,119 runs in his long career. But he also struck out 1,460 times.

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“Somebody was explaining to a visitor that some of the outfield seats in R.F.K. Stadium had been painted white to mark where some of my long home runs had landed,” Howard told The New York Times in 1981. “Ted turned to the guy and said, ‘All the green seats are for the times he struck out.’”

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He was an All-Star for four consecutive seasons as a Senator, mostly with losing teams. On Sept. 30, 1971, he hit the Senators’ last home run at R.F.K. Stadium before the team left Washington and became the Texas Rangers.

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