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...Another Surly Slugger Were you upset when Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run and passed Babe Ruth's career home-run total? Our Sept. 29, 1961, story on the New York Yankees' Roger Maris showed that even players who aren't accused of using steroids can rile the fans when Ruth's numbers are threatened...
...single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad it's over," the sigh recalled Henry Aaron's relief in 1974 after hitting the 715th home run that bettered Babe Ruth. "Aaron was as good as Willie Mays," Pete Rose thinks, "just not as famous." In the year of Rose's assault on Ty Cobb, Carew took his usual place in the off-light with a practiced grace...
Speaking of baseball, is Cal Ripken’s consecutive game streak really the most memorable Major League moment of all-time? More memorable than Carlton Fisk’s 1975 Game Six home run, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th career homer or Kirk Gibson’s “I don’t believe what I just saw” fist pumping blast in the 1988 World Series? It’s a great record, but it’s not really a baseball moment. He just showed...
...Henry "Hank" Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record with his 715th career homer...
...where, lore has it, the game began more than a century ago. Make your way to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the repository of such memorabilia as the bat Babe Ruth used for his "called shot" in 1932 and the uniform Hank Aaron wore the night he hit his 715th career home run. Plan to get there for the annual Hall of Fame weekend, July 25-27. Festivities include the induction of this year's new Hall of Famers--including Don Sutton and Larry Doby--autograph sessions and the 52nd annual Hall of Fame Game, featuring the Orioles...