hank aaron

     

In April 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a license plate that read "HLA715"

Trivia about hank aaron

  • The official address of the Atlanta Braves is No. 755 on the drive named for this man
  • Barry Bonds, among others, is currently trying to break this man's home run record of 755
  • Only Babe Ruth & this former Braves outfielder finished their careers with over 2,000 RBIs
  • This Braves slugger hit 375 of his 755 career home runs in the 1960s
  • On July 27, 1974 in the only game he ever pitched, Dodger Rex Hudson gave up this man's 726th home run
  • The Braves tried to bench this player so he'd break the Babe's record in Atlanta, but was ordered to play him
  • He hit his last home run in 1976
  • He said of his 715th homer, hit April 8, “All I could think about was that I wanted to touch all the bases”
  • On April 8, 1974 this Brave hit his 715th home run
  • He had 2,297 Major League RBIs
  • (Dr. Gates gives the clue.) In the "African American National Biography" series, which I co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the second entry is a profile of this baseball great
  • "Baseball OF. 'Hammerin' Hank'...Career span 1954-76"
  • Ending this man's 50-year reign atop the alphabetical list of MLBers, David Aardsma said, "I owe it all to my parents"
  • Inducted in 1982, this Brave has the most RBIs of anyone in the Hall with 2,297
  • Hitting home run No. 715 in Atlanta on April 8, 1974
  • This slugger hit home run No. 715 off Dodger pitcher Al Downing in Atlanta
  • On Feb. 29, 1972 he signed a new contract with Atlanta making him the highest paid player in baseball
  • ...in the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • In 1974 he tied Babe Ruth's record in his first at-bat of the season
  • On May 1, 1975 he moved into first place on Major League Baseball's RBI leaders list
  • He hit 22 of his 755 career HRs as a Brewer; he hit 398 as a Milwaukee Brave
  • This "Home Run King" played in his 3,298th & last game for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976
  • M.C. Hammer earned his nickname from his resemblance to this "Hammerin'" home run king
  • Coming to bat in the 4th inning of a game against the L.A. Dodgers in 1974, this Atlanta Brave hit his 715th home run
  • Alphabetically, baseball Hall of Famers run from him to Robin Yount
  • In 1975 this ballplayer was awarded the NAACP's prestigious Spingarn Medal

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