Fifty years ago today, Hank Aaron sent the ... Ruth has a better 162-game home-run average than Aaron, who unlike Ruth didn't dabble with pitching during his first five seasons.

Downing had walked Aaron on five pitches in his first at-bat ... an even more memorable event: Hank Aaron, who died Friday at 86, hitting his 715th career home run.

Fifty years ago, Hank Aaron made history and Vin Scully perfectly curated it in real time. Aaron did not just break the all-time home run record held ... the crowd, the first thing that came ...

By Richard Goldstein Hank Aaron, who faced down racism as he ... Aaron took his place. He hit his first major league home run on April 23, at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, off the Cardinals ...

Aaron famously broke Ruth’s longstanding home run record on April 8 ... Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, his first year eligible. In 1999, MLB created the Hank Aaron Award, given every year ...

But he’ll never be the true home run leader... Forty years ago today, Hank Aaron etched his name ... coach or in a front office position. Aaron was a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

but [also] learn how to be able to get along with other people, as well as to get along with yourself.” The post Hank Aaron’s impact beyond his 715th home run appeared first on Rough Draft ...

They kept moving closer and closer to Hank Aaron on Atlanta’s ... It was the night Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record, sending Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing’s ...

Cardinals infielder Jose Oquendo becomes the first non-pitcher in 20 seasons to earn a decision when he allows a two-run ...

To celebrate, the first 15,000 fans through the gates will get a Hank Aaron bobblehead for tonight's game. The first pitch is at 7:20 p.m. Dusty Baker, who was on deck when Aaron hit the homer ...

Aaron hit his 714th career home run against the Cincinnati ... tribute to the moment and what Hank Aaron was and what he represented.” Downing, 79, said he first met Aaron through former New ...

Hank Aaron, whose prodigious swing took him from a poverty-stricken section of Mobile, Alabama, to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, has died, his longtime team, the Atlanta Braves ...