Sometimes, a voice from the past can take you there in an instant.
And on a cold, snowy Saturday in January, when the voice is that of your first baseball hero, it not only takes you back all those years, it puts a year in your eye, a smile on your face, and a glow in your heart.
Frank Howard, the Washington Senators’ slugger whose towering home runs into the upper deck of RFK Stadium captured the imaginations of Washington baseball fans from 1965-1971, captivated more than 170 of us who heard him speak on the phone Saturday to a Society for American Baseball Research meeting.