In July and again in August of , he delivered decisive late-inning blows. On May 4, he beat Williamsport and was 3-for-3 batting with a three-run home run. In a win over Binghamton in an inning game on June 24, , he struck out seven and set up the winning run in the 11th with a triple.
On August 15, , he stunned the Eastern League by striking out a league-record 20 Binghamton Triplets in a nine-inning, win. In Howell was invited to the Cleveland spring training camp, but just before the season started, Cleveland sent him back to the Barons camp in Sumter, South Carolina. He used the break to marry Helen that May They moved into a house on Custer Street in Wilkes-Barre. Three days later he was back on the mound for the Barons and his teammates gave him and Helen a wedding gift, a silverware set.
Although the Reds had acquired him with the outfield in mind, he had a good year on the mound with the Chiefs , 3. Back home in Wilkes-Barre after his first season in Syracuse, Dixie joined the Army — even though he was exempt from the draft with a wife and daughters Carol Ann was two and Shirley just three months. He was inducted in Wilkes-Barre on November 23, Less than a year later, in September , Howell was went missing in action in Belgium.
Helen spent over two months wondering and worrying. She learned that Dixie and other infantrymen had been crossing the Meuse River in Belgium in boats when a large force of Germans suddenly appeared on a bluff above them and took them prisoner. Though Howell never talked much about his POW experience, or anything else, he did open up to the Sporting News in about his time in Stalag 7A at the Moosburg prison camp.
The noon fare was some sort of soup. The fellows called it horse meat. The Red Cross would give us chocolate bars and other hard to get things and some of us would trade these things for bread. We slept on straw beds in our clothes to keep warm. After the war Dixie recovered at home in Wilkes-Barre before reporting to spring camp in He continued to play for Syracuse from through By this time, the International League was classified as Triple-A.
In , Howell won a career-high 17 games for the Chiefs, also batting. Howell went to spring camp with the Reds in , but after pitching in sleet and rain in an exhibition game, he developed a sore arm.
After trying all kinds of treatments, he got into five games in late April and early May but was hit hard. Manager Bucky Walters lifted him in the third inning, and he took the loss as the Pittsburgh Pirates won, Sent back to Syracuse, Howell pitched only 39 innings during the rest of the season. In , he went despite a 4.
He pitched a no-hitter at Minneapolis on August 10 against Columbus. ERA 3. Games Played This includes all times that the player appeared on the lineup card. Pitchers in non-DH games that appeared on the lineup card but didn't bat will still have a game in this column.
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Louis Cardinals back in , but Cincinnati had purchased his contract in December. And, of course, he went on to a Hall of Fame career with St. Louis, the New York Giants, and the Yankees. As for Howell, he eventually made it back to the field in , but not for the Tigers. He spent the summer in the minor leagues with the Beaumont Exporters and the Birmingham Barons, hitting a combined.
He played eight seasons in the minors for several different organizations, with a few. But he was never a power threat, and his poor defense kept him from the major leagues. But Howell was a two-sport athlete. He played in only five games, with one completion in six attempts, and no touchdowns.
He eventually made his way back to the college football ranks in , where he coached for several schools over the course of a dozen years. In , he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player.
The Internet Movie Database has him in an uncredited role as a football player in a film entitled The Adventures of Frank Merriwell. In the novel, there is a scene in which Scout tries to help her brother feel better. Use code: early Dismiss.
New Items! HS One of the brightest stars that ever fell on Alabama was Dixie Howell, the throwing threat of the famed "Howell-to-Hutson" passing combination.
In scoring the Tide's first touchdown, Howell bolted over from the five, doing a complete somersault and landing on his feet to score. He added a yard touchdown run and threw a TD pass to Hutson.
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