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Aaron would hit 44 home runs in four different seasons, [35] and he hit his record-breaking 715th career home run off Dodgers pitcher Al Downing, who coincidentally also wore number 44. [ 36 ] At this point, Aaron was known to family and friends primarily as "Henry".
This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory (a conventional home run) or by an inside-the-park home run. Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007.
On April 8, 1974 in Atlanta, "Hammerin' Hank" broke the major league home run record that had stood for nearly 40 years. On April 8, 1974 in Atlanta, "Hammerin' Hank" broke the major league home ...
Aaron ended the 1973 season with 713 career home runs, one shy of Babe Ruth’s once-hallowed record. A new record would have to wait until 1974. And for Aaron and the rest of the baseball world ...
June 25: Most home runs in a calendar month – 19 by Sammy Sosa (extended to 20 on June 30). September 8: Most home runs, season – 62 by Mark McGwire ; later extended to 70. Sosa also broke the 37-year-old record held by Roger Maris and was briefly the sole record-holder, hitting his 66th home run of the season (which would be his final ...
Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record and gracefully left his mark with 755 homers and a legacy as one of baseball’s ...
Hank Aaron's mark of 25 career All-Star games is highly unlikely to be matched, let alone broken. Both records set by Hank Aaron, 1954–1976. Aaron was an All-Star in all but two of the 23 seasons he played in the major leagues (his debut year in 1954 and last season in 1976).
On Opening Day 1974, Hank Aaron hit a three-run shot off the Reds’ Jack Billingham at Riverfront Stadium to tie Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs.