Chris Howard

Christopher Hugh Howard (born February 27, 1966) is an American college baseball coach and former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners during three seasons in the early 1990s. Biography Howard attended the University of Oklahoma on a football scholarship. He played for both the Sooners football and Sooners baseball teams, and was a fullback on the 1985 Oklahoma Sooners football team, the consensus national champions. Howard later transferred to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for one season. He was selected by the Seattle Mariners in 41st round of the 1988 MLB draft. Howard began his professional baseball career in 1988 in the Mariners organization. He first reached the Double-A level in 1989 and the Triple-A level in 1991. He also made his MLB debut in 1991 as a September call-up, appearing in nine games for the Mariners; he was 1-for-6 at the plate for a .167 batting average. Howard spent most of the next five seasons playing in Triple-A. He played in four MLB games in 1993 and nine in 1994, all with the Mariners. He ended his playing career in 1996 with the Norfolk Tides, a Triple-A farm team of the New York Mets.