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Paul Payne: Hank Aaron’s Passing Stokes Childhood Memories Of “The Chase” Saturday, January 23, 2021 - by Paul Payne
Atlanta Braves legend Hank Aaron watches his historic 715th home run on April 8, 1974. Aaron died Friday at the age of 86.
The chart the author maintained to chronicle Hank Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s career home run record.
The scorebook signifying Aaron’s passing of Babe Ruth with his 715th career home run.
Hearing the news that baseball legend Hank Aaron died surely sparked a flood of memories for those of us who grew up in the South long before TBS turned the Atlanta Braves into “America’s Team”.
Henry Aaron s ordeal ended at 9:07 p.m. Monday.
It ended in a carnival atmosphere that would have been more congenial to the man he surpassed as baseball s alltime home-run champion. But it ended. And for that, as Aaron advised the 53,775 Atlanta fans who came to enshrine him in the game s pantheon, Thank God.
Aaron s 715th home run came in the fourth inning of the Braves home opener with Los Angeles, off the Dodgers Al Downing, a lefthander who had insisted doggedly before the game that for him this night would be no different from any other. He was wrong, for now he joins a company of victims that includes Tom Zachary (Babe Ruth s 60th home run in 1927), Tracy Stallard (Roger Maris s 61st in 1961), and Guy Bush (Ruth s 714th in 1935). They are destined to ride in tandem through history with their assailants.