Homer Happy

Parade Magazine had an interesting article on Sunday regarding a home run database kept by David Vincent. Vincent is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Nationals' official scorer. His database maintains information on every home run ever hit. Vincent apparently can call up in an instant incredibly detailed and obscure information, like who is the oldest player ever to hit a homer (Julio Franco), what was the latest-inning home run ever hit (25th, by Harold Baines), and who are the teammates with the longest last names ever to hit back-to-back home runs (Juan Encarnacion and Frank Catalanotto).

Here is some information on Nationals' related home runs:

- Frank Robinson has hit the most home runs on Mother's Day--9
- Vinny Castilla is tied with Reggie Jackson and George Foster for the most home runs hit on Friday the 13th--6.

Castilla will have to wait until next year to have the most home runs hit on Mother's day--there isn't another Friday the 13th this season. Will he have a chance to set the "record" as a National?