For those that might have forgotten…
Many know that Hank Aaron was the first player to tie and break Babe Ruth’s all time home run record. However most don’t know that the historic tying home run came on Opening Day. On April 4th, 1974 the Hank Arron and Atlanta Braves played the Reds in Cincinnati, Oh. It was in that game that Aaron hit his 714th career home run. The historic home run came in Hank Aaron’s first at bat of the 1974 season. Jack Billingham was the pitcher that gave up the home run.
There was no better place for this incredible moment to happen in Cincinnati. The city is home to the first ever professional baseball team, the Reds. Everyday until 1990 the Reds had thrown the first pitch in every baseball season. Opening Day is even an official holiday in the city, complete with a parade.
That great Opening day moment almost never…
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FANTASY FURNACE 
And also what people fail to acknowledge is was that in what was said to be an improved are of race relations Hank Aaron was vilified and had racial epithets leveled towards him and members of his family on that fateful day . How much have we really learned since then ? Not much at all , and the country has barely advanced with any goddamn sense of respect towards the game much less minorities .
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