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Let’s Hear it for Hammerin’ Hank on the 50th Anniversary of his Record Breaking 715th Home Run
It was fifty years ago today that Hammerin’ Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run surpassing Babe Ruth’s long-standing record for lifetime home runs. On that cool early April afternoon in 1974 in Atlanta Stadium Aaron blasted a deep fly ball over the left-field wall against LA Dodger lefty Al Downing and became Major League…
The Long-Forgotten Legend of Lipman Pike: Baseball’s First Jewish Star
By guest blogger Bruce Solomon Few realized that baseball history would be made on July 16, 1866, a sweltering,humid afternoon, when the Philadelphia Athletics took the field against the Alerts ofDanville at their new ball grounds in the City of Brotherly Love. Just a year earlier, thefield served as a bivouac and staging area for…
A Tribute to Buck O’Neil
One of my favorite blogs is Archived Innings by Precious Sanders. While recently going through some past posts on Archived Innings I came upon a post honoring Buck O’Neil the talented Negro League ball player who had just been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. I have always been a fan of Buck O’Neil…
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