Word: bartholomay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atlanta Braves Chairman William Bartholomay announced last month that Aaron would be benched during the team's opening series in Cincinnati so that Atlanta fans could have a chance to see the historic blows-Nos. 714 and 715-hit at home. Bartholomay conveniently did not mention that those de serving rooters had numbered barely 16,000 at the 53,000-seat Atlanta Stadium when Aaron hit his 700th home run last summer and that only 2,800 had shown up the night Aaron...
...Bartholomay's plan quickly provoked charges that keeping Aaron on the bench was tantamount to "throwing" the games against the Reds. This time it was the critics who failed to note a telling point: last year the Braves won as frequently without Aaron as they did with him. Last week the moralists prevailed as Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn ordered the Braves to play Aaron in at least two of the Cincinnati games "for the good" of the sport...