January 22, 20215 yr Hank Aaron passed away this morning. He was 86 years old. Feels like we're losing MLB legends every week, unfortunately.
January 22, 20215 yr As a boy I attended Milwaukee County Stadium to watch him play in the 1950s. Wow was he a great player. I am saddened by the loss of another childhood hero.
January 22, 20215 yr Sad day. I had the pleasure of seeing Hank play in old Fulton County Stadium several times. Quite a team being assembled in heaven the last year. Hall of Famers - Tom SeaverWhitey FordBob GibsonDon SuttonPhil NiekroJoe MorganAl KalineLou BrockHammerin' HankTommy Lasorda Other memorable players from my earlier years we have lost in the last year : Ron PerranoskiJimmy WynnDick AllenPhil LinzDennis MenkeLindy McDanielMike McCormickBob MillerClaudell WashingtonBob WatsonEd NapoleonGlenn BeckertEd FarmerEddie KaskoDon PavletichJohnny AntonelliBob OliverTony FernandezMike RyanHorace ClarkeJay JohnstoneLou Johnsonamong many others...... Rest In Peace to all of my childhood (and later) heroes....
January 22, 20215 yr Dang, he was such a historic figure and a great baseball ambassador. It seems really odd to say, but the all-time HR champ was somehow vastly under-appreciated.
January 22, 20215 yr So sad to lose Henry Aaron. Aaron was my favorite all-time player who played for my favorite team at the time and a player that I have followed since 1957. A true legend and a hero and in my mind one of thee greatest baseball players of all time. RIP Henry, you earned it.
January 22, 20215 yr Certainly one of the top handful of players to ever play the game. I understand he was also a true gentleman. Very special person who will be missed. Wish we had tv back then with Braves games every day so I could have seen him more than once a year. May he spend eternity playing right field along side Willie Mays in heaven.
January 23, 20215 yr Certainly one of the top handful of players to ever play the game. I understand he was also a true gentleman. Very special person who will be missed. Wish we had tv back then with Braves games every day so I could have seen him more than once a year. May he spend eternity playing right field along side Willie Mays in heaven.Willie may think you're jumping the gun on this a little.
January 23, 20215 yr Warning: math approaching. I enjoy the YouTube channel Numberphile. Sometime during the last month I found this video. I think it's worth watching, even for non-mathematicians. Watch it all the way to the end.
January 23, 20215 yr Warning: math approaching. I enjoy the YouTube channel Numberphile. Sometime during the last month I found this video. I think it's worth watching, even for non-mathematicians. Watch it all the way to the end.Outstanding! The Ruth-Aaron Pair is the best number theory observation I have seen in a long time. (Because I don't dabble much in number theory, but whatev.)
January 23, 20215 yr Willie may think you're jumping the gun on this a little.I thought about that after writing it. Expect Willie would be looking forward to it. What an outfield for the NL all-stars many of those years, Mays, Aaron and Clemente.
January 23, 20215 yr What an outfield for the NL all-stars many of those years, Mays, Aaron and Clemente.Whom do you "demote" to LF? For those who find bbref.com WAR and its relatives a reasonable rule of thumb, let me throw this out there additionally: if you sort NL outfielders by single-season Wins Above Average for the years 1951 through 1975, thirteen of the top fourteen seasons belong to these three gentlemen, with only Duke Snider "intruding" at #12. Or, 28 of the top 50 - from just 3 guys. Incredible dominance.
January 23, 20215 yr Whom do you "demote" to LF? If memory serves, and someone may know where to find this and correct me, I believe Aaron started out of position in left several years.
January 23, 20215 yr If memory serves, and someone may know where to find this and correct me, I believe Aaron started out of position in left several years.Sure, and I expect Bad Henry would have willingly vacated in favor of Roberto. Just an interesting note that someone would have to give way. "Mister Aaron? The manager wants to talk to you in his office."
January 23, 20215 yr I thought about that after writing it. Expect Willie would be looking forward to it. What an outfield for the NL all-stars many of those years, Mays, Aaron and Clemente.Check out the outfielders on the NL roster of the 1965 ASG. The starters were Stargell in LF, Mays in CF, and Aaron in RF. The reserves were Callison, Clemente, Frank Robinson and Billy Williams. Now picture Gene Mauch, who managed the NL team, telling those four players this: Sorry, guys, have a seat on the bench. You're not good enough to start.
January 23, 20215 yr Hank Aaron was my dad's favorite player... Was pretty cool when Steve Buhr found the below tweet. Reuben Stohs is my dad's dad's cousin. He was proud to have given up a homer to Aaron. I didn't realize the homer he gave up to Aaron was his first as an affiliated player. Pretty cool!
January 23, 20215 yr If memory serves, and someone may know where to find this and correct me, I believe Aaron started out of position in left several years.He requested this two different times, so it wouldn't surprise if the change was made from that point simply because Aaron made it known that he was willing to defer.
January 23, 20215 yr I wrote a piece about a baseball and pheasant hunting festival that was held yearly here in the 1940s and referenced the fact that Aaron used to own land in South Dakota for the purpose of pheasant hunting each year. He would hunt and then spend time at the Redfield development center that housed adults and youth with developmental disabilities, often having to be "kicked out" by staff so residents could go to bed after spending hours with the residents playing ball, reading to residents, and simply spending time with them. He was a genuinely great human being that happened to be a tremendous baseball player.
January 24, 20215 yr As you can see in the photo, the ballpark was located in one of the more populated areas of Fargo.
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