Friday Flashbacks: Hammerin’ Hank Becomes the Home Run King
This week in 1974, the story was all about Hank Aaron and his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record. The Braves owner said he was going to hold Aaron out of the first three road games, which caused Bowie Kuhn to order manager Eddie Matthews to play him. Bowie Kuhn ordered that Hank Aaron play on Sunday in Cincinnati after he had already homered to tie Ruth’s record (a young Woodrow Paige provides his opinion). “Hank Aaron wasn’t jiving” when he said he would hurry and get the record. On Monday, April 8, he hit the record breaking home run off of Al Downing.
“Whammin Sammy” Snead wins his first Masters (1949) . . . 23 year old Jack Nicklaus becomes youngest to win Masters, holding off defending champ Arnold Palmer and 50-year old Sam Snead, who had a lead on the back nine (1963) . . . Tom Watson finally wins the Masters, is no longer a choke artist (1977) . . . Jack Nicklaus wins his sixth Masters and final Major at age 46 (1986) . . . If this is true, then Colts fans should send Jim Mora a thank you note (1998) . . . rookie head coach Norv Turner wants to draft either Heath Shuler or Trent Dilfer (1994) . . . Art Schlicter is allegedly into gambling (1983) . . .
The Kansas City Royals had the highest payroll in baseball on opening day ($22 million) after signing free agents Storm Davis and Mark Davis (1990) . . . Rogers Hornsby in a showdown with the league over value of Cardinals’ stock after being traded to the Giants (1927) . . . Speculation on the Red Sox to San Francisco (1956) . . . Mets GM Steve Phillips had a brilliant offseason that included signing Mo Vaughn (2002) . . . “JFK unveils a high hard one” don’t worry, it’s SFW (1961) . . . When the Brewers announce that they will be bringing the beer “from the land of sky blue waters (waters)” to County Stadium, it causes an uproar (1980) . . .
An article about cockfighting and dogfighting in New York (1935) . . . Bruins coach Terry O’Reilly smashes out car window in Hartford with a tire iron (1988) . . . Bobby Orr with a goal, an assist, and an ejection in game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals (1971) . . . Congressman Dilweg, former player with the Packers, supports a bill that would end “work or fight” order aimed at athletes during the war (1943) . . . Big Time Soccer debuts in the U.S. (1967) . . . Wimp Sanderson settles lawsuit by secretary Nancy Watts alleging he slapped her (1993) . . . Nick Van Exel attacks referee Ronnie Garrettson (1996) . . . The Duke Lacrosse Case (2006).
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April 8th, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Link fail on the Duke lacrosse case. Points to the Steve Philips link.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Hammerin’ Hank Becomes the Home Run King
He still is.
/My dad
//Me
///My future son
////His future son
/////And so on…
Team Sid Bream
April 8th, 2011 at 5:20 PM
Bruins coach Terry O’Reilly smashes out car window in Hartford with a tire iron
Peter Sidorkiewicz and Mike Liut, no there was a goalie tandem for the ages.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:21 PM
they really just don’t name ‘em like they used to.
Hey Honey, great name for our first born son…Wimp…sounds great, doesn’t it? Wimp Sanderson… I see great things for this boy
April 8th, 2011 at 5:22 PM
Link fail on the Duke lacrosse case. Points to the Steve Philips link.
fixed
April 8th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Hey Honey, great name for our first born son…Wimp…sounds great, doesn’t it? Wimp Sanderson… I see great things for this boy
My grandfather’s brother was named Wimpy. Well, actually, that’s just what people called hime, he was named W.T., and my grandfather was J.W. Those weren’t their initials, they were their given names. The Army made my grandfather take the name John when he joined.
My grandmother used to say that side of the family was so poor even the poor people felt sorry for them, and they couldn’t even afford names.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Home Run King- Aaron, Greatest Player- Ruth
My dad loved those old Hamm’s commercials.
/the beer is shit though
April 8th, 2011 at 5:27 PM
Art Schlicter is allegedly into gambling
I still don’t believe this is true…
April 8th, 2011 at 5:29 PM
That Mora/Peyton/1998 draft link is high comedy. Fucking Marcus Nash.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Lisk…in the Round Up this morning, the proprietor had this to say:
We could use actual thought on this issue, as I would argue the Steelers (particularly defensively) have been doing this for decades. Please make no mention of the NFP article, as the author has clearly never read Moneyball.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:31 PM
Who didn’t? Cartoon animals playing softball and drinking. Brilliance.
Can’t argue with that. One of the all-time worst cheapos.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
“How about the Red Sox? Their park seats only 33,000, one of the four smallest in the majors. There is little or no parking space.”
Could you imagine Fenway being torn down so that they could ultimately play in the Babylon that is Candlestick Park? Although I would assume that Boston would have gotten what became the Mets and built a shitty cookie-cutter stadium with a huge parking lot out in the middle of nowhere so they could make some real money.
/brainsplosion
April 8th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
TBL-good call on Rory shooting the 69 today and being the leader.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:35 PM
Hamm’s genuine draft was the nastiest beer I ever drank.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:36 PM
Babar, that piece this morning used the term Moneyball in a completely different context than what it means in baseball. I would like to think that some NFL teams do use similar concepts of exploiting market inefficiencies and in using research to augment scouting. For example, 3/4 defenses in the early part of this decade were using a moneyball approach because there were so few of them, they could get 1st round talent in the 3rd round because of lack of demand.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:37 PM
my brother and I split a 30 pack of it last year, I think it was about $10 and I probably put down a 12 pack or so. one of the worst headache’s I ever had the next morning. gross.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Andre Wadsworth is a young Bruce Smith. Mike Freeman should be reminded of this every time he writes an article.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:40 PM
the red sox parking around the stadium provides more income to local business then a normal day of tourism does. nothing like seeing 75 cars jammed into a corner mcdonalds for $90 a pop.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:46 PM
Rory shot about the highest score he possibly could today (at least judging by the back 9). He could have been -13 or -14 easily
April 8th, 2011 at 5:47 PM
this pairing of mcilroy, fowler, and day has been fun as hell to watch. Day was a stud today.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:48 PM
Bill Buttram is somebody’s name?
April 8th, 2011 at 5:48 PM
And I would not count Tiger out of this, He’s got some momentum going.
April 8th, 2011 at 5:57 PM
And I would not count Tiger out of this, He’s got some momentum going.
It’s on if he gets to -6 by day’s end, playing in the group right in front of McIlroy on Saturday.
April 8th, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Bill Buttram is somebody’s name?
Yes, and his cousin is Buttram Sam
April 8th, 2011 at 6:08 PM
Even I knew to park in a subway parking lot 10 miles north of town and take the subway in.
April 8th, 2011 at 6:23 PM
If Tiger gets to -6, he’d be 2 groups in front of Rory. If Westwood gets to -6, he be 3 groups in front of Rory (at -6). They go out in reverse order of where they came in. The first -6 posted is the last one out on the course the next day
April 8th, 2011 at 6:25 PM
If Sergio can get to -5 or -6, I’ll be loving the last 5 groups or so tomorrow even more
April 8th, 2011 at 7:01 PM
My main man.
/T Rex’d
//Also Bauhaus’d