He also called balls and strikes for three no-hitters: the first of Virgil Trucks' two (1952), Jack Kralick (1962), and Sonny Siebert (1966).

Born in Oneida, Pennsylvania, and raised in Allentown, Honochick graduated from West Hazleton High School.

[1] Honochick was the crew chief who declared that the Washington Senators forfeit its last game (1971, played at home at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on September 30) because a mob, furious that the franchise was relocating to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex the next season, stormed the playing field with the team only one out away from victory.

He was the only MLB umpire to travel with the Baltimore Orioles on its tour of Japan later that year in October and November.

His first commercial played up the clichéd notion, usually bellowed out by hecklers, that umpires should get glasses because of questionable calls made on the field having been caused by poor eyesight.