Happy birthday #715

[adamb100]

33 years ago Hank Henry Aaron hit #715. =)

[whizkid]

Number 715 was on 4/8/74.

[splitterpfj]

Whizkid is right, but don't worry about it Adam, that's my first great baseball memory, I'll discuss that all you want.

[hawing]

Yeah, I didn't see that moment live, but I remember the newspaper and TV coverage the next day. The thing that struck me most at the time was the two guys who ran out on the field and joined Aaron for part of his trot around the bases. I was eight years old and didn't really get into baseball for another eight years, so for this much to stick in my memory is pretty decent.

 

Either way, it was still 33 years ago...just not precisely 33 years.

 

Wasn't it in July that Aaron hit #755? (in 1976)

[splitterpfj]

Yes Hawing, it was.

 

July 20, 1976.

 

www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL197607200.shtml

[1992casey]

Well then, let's celebrate #755. That's probably what Adam meant, anyway. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

 

EDIT: Oops! That was 31 years ago.

[adamb100]

Blah I saw on ESPN's front page that Hank Aaron hit #715 33 years ago. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif