In the Bleachers by Ben Zaehringer for June 27, 2009

Of course, the first father-son tandem to play major league baseball simultaneously also were the only father and son to hit back-to-back home runs in a major league baseball game: Ken Griffey, Jr., and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., both of the Seattle Mariners in a game against the California Angels on September 14th, 1990.

(The Angels won the game 7-5.)

i wonder if Gordie Howe and one of his sons, Mark or Marty, ever scored back to back goals?

yyyguy: No, but Gordie, his son Mark and Wayne Gretzky played together in a 1979 WHA All-Star game. Mark and Gretzky each scored a goal, and Gordie got an assist. They won that game 4-2.

Hoe about a Gordie Howe hat trick?

JFri: Ah, yes…a goal, an assist and a fight.

According to CBC Sports, Toronto Arena’s Harry Cameron scored the first “Hat Trick” in 1917 . (Howe was born in 1928.)

While playing in the WHA, Gordie was penalized in a game for throwing a player off his son, Mark.

Other players hold the record for hat tricks, but it is so-named because of Howe’s sheer toughness.

when i think about the fact that he was still in the NHL at my current age… now THAT is something extra special

Yeah, Gordie was playing in the NHL when Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) was born in 1948, and he was still playing when Orr retired in 1979.

Howe played in a professional game for six decades (1940s-1990s).

If Cal Ripken is the “Iron Man” of baseball…

…can we say that Howe was the Iron Man of hockey?

in other words….. ‘YERRRRR OUTTA HERE!” (accompanied ) by a swift throwing motion