Word: 714th
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Legends and records die hard in the sporting world and the bigger they are, the harsher the death. When Henry Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit a home run last Thursday afternoon in Cincinnati, his 714th, he tied the most hallowed record held by the biggest legend in all of sports, Babe Ruth's home run mark...
When Babe Ruth hit his 714th and final home run on May 25, 1935, there was no swarm of reporters and photographers standing by to engulf him as he crossed home plate, no special promotional drum rolls. The 10,000 fans in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field that Saturday afternoon gave the aging hero Ruth a polite cheer-it was his third home run of the game-and let him trot quietly into the dugout and baseball history...