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Article: Twenty years ago, Aaron left his mark
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 8, 1994
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Al Downing threw the pitch. Hank Aaron swung. As the ball headed
into the Georgia night, No. 44 had a reasonably good idea where it
might wind up.
"It was a typical Atlanta home run," Hank Aaron recalls. "I'd hit
enough of them in this ballpark to know it had a chance to go out."
Diamond triviologists know precisely where that baseball
descended. Its final resting place was the glove of Atlanta reliever
Tom House. Because the lefthander was standing in the Braves'
bullpen at the time, that made it a home run -- but not just any home
run. This was No. 715 of Hank Aaron's career, the one that made him
baseball's all-time home run king.
It happened 20 years ago tonight. In those two decades, ...