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...week of June 18-24 Graham staged his nightly spectacular in Atlanta Stadium, home of the Atlanta Braves and their great showman, Henry Aaron. At the time, Aaron was seemingly on his way to breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record. Graham had a tough act to follow, but he was prepared. In seven nights, he drew over 350,000 worshippers...
Married. Henry Louis Aaron, 39, baseball's superstar outfielder whose next home run will tie Babe Ruth's lifetime record of 714; and Billye Williams, 36, widow of the Atlanta civil rights leader the Rev. Samuel Williams and co-host of a morning TV talk show where she and Hammerin' Hank met two years ago; both for the second time; in Kingston, Jamaica...
...sure. So they yanked out rows of wooden seats, tore signs from walls, and scooped up souvenir clumps of grass to take home. Fittingly enough, first base went to Mrs. Lou Gehrig in honor of her husband who once guarded it so well, and home plate went to Mrs. Babe Ruth, whose husband minced across it triumphantly so many times...
...fact, Ruth's home-run record that year was greater than the team total of 14 of the 15 other major-league clubs. Yankee attendance ballooned to nearly 1.3 million, from 619,000 the previous year. The crowds came to watch the power and grace of the Babe at bat; they came to cheer his peculiar pigeon-toed trot as he rounded the bases after clouting one into the stands...
...spindly-legged, potbellied oldtimer of 40, he reached back one May afternoon and recovered for a brief instant the intuitive skills of earlier springs. A Pittsburgh sportswriter had kept him propped against a bar the night before until 5 a.m., but no matter. With three swings, the Babe hit homers 712, 713 and 714, driving the final pitch completely out of Forbes Field...