Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a year as a reporter in Pittsfield, Mass., and graduation from the Columbia School of Journalism, has landed a number of field assignments, but never an assignment quite like last week's. He was sent to Cincinnati to be on hand if Atlanta Braves Slugger Henry Aaron tied Babe Ruth's career home-run record. Witteman ended up seeing a lot more drama than he had bargained...
...wasn't until he challenged a legend, and the biggest legend in all of sports before people began to realize just how good Henry Aaron really...
...anyone's standards, Aaron was a star from the very beginning, but for his first 19 seasons he had been pretty much lost among the myriad of other more prominent stars despite his many fine seasons. He was not nearly as popular a hero as Ruth...
...Aaron will probably finish his career with somewhere around 750 home runs. The only active players over 500 are Frank Robinson and Harmon Killebrew with 552 and 546 respectively. Neither has a chance of coming close. And for that matter, it is doubtful that anyone else playing today has much of a chance either. It took almost forty years to break Ruth's record and it will probably take at least as long to break Aaron's, the new most revered record in sports...
...mehitabel, an adaptation of don marquis's story of a cat and a cockroach who couldn't depress the shift lock, officially opened on sunday. unofficially it's been running for about a year, of course, but it's always nice to do things right. sort of like henry aaron hitting it in atlanta. weekends, 2:30 p.m., theater two at 196 broadway, along with Changes (Brecht and two contemporary one-actors) in the evenings...