Whatever Happened To Hank Aaron s 755th Home Run Ball? Icon And Image/Getty Images
By Shawna Perrin/Jan. 22, 2021 4:02 pm EDT
As admirers around the world mourn the death of baseball legend Hank Hammerin Hank Aaron at age 86 today, many sports fans may find themselves wondering what happened to the ball that catapulted Aaron into the history books on July 20, 1976. But let s back things up just a bit.
Aaron joined Major League Baseball team the Milwaukee Braves in 1954. According to Biography, it was 20 years later, after the Braves had relocated to Atlanta in 1966 (per the MLB website) that he hit his 715th home run, shattering Babe Ruth s record of 714, to the delight of many long-suffering Boston Red Sox fans, as Baseball Reference tells it. After Aaron s 20th season with the Braves was over, he moved back to Milwaukee to play for the Brewers.
by Senior DIG (Rtd.) Edward Gunawardene
In recent weeks many interesting articles have appeared in the Sunday Island on the Burghers of Ceylon. The contributions by Godwin Perera, Laksman Ratnapala, A. J. Perera, Sumith de Silva and Manel Fonseka have rekindled in me memories of the many public figures of the Burgher community, particularly police officers at the time I joined the police in the late fifties of the last century. The mix-up in photos of Col. F. C. de Saram and Canon R. S. de Saram and the references to Burgher bits were indeed amusing.
When I joined the police, the induction process of new entrants to gazetted rank, required probationary ASPs to be introduced by appointment to senior public officers including the Governor General, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Attorney General etc. As such, with my batchmates before long I was able to meet several amiable public servants of the Burgher community.