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January 22, 2021 FILE - Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron smiles during a press conference at Atlanta Stadium, Ga., after the game in which he hit his 715th career home, in this April 8, 1974, file photo. (AP Photo/File) ATLANTA (AP) — Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball’s greatest all-around players, died Friday. He was 86. The Atlanta Braves, Aaron’s longtime team, said he d...

Paul Newberry A baseball left by a fan rests in a growing memorial Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Atlanta, near the spot where a ball hit for home run by Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron cleared the wall to break Babe Ruths home run record in 1974. Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth but went on to break the career home run record in the pre-steroids era, died peacefully in his sleep early Friday. He was 86. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ...

Hammerin’ Hank Aaron Is Still the Home Run King to Me The greatest is gone. Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron, the Hall of Fame slugger whose 755 career home runs long stood as baseball’s golden mark, has died. He was 86. “Our family is heartbroken to hear the news of Hank Aaron’s passing,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said in a statement on behalf of the Aaron family. “Hank Aaron was an American icon and one of Georgia’s greatest legends. His life and career made history, and his influence...

Reply Pictured: Hank Aaron (Mediapunch/Shutterstock) MILWAUKEE, WI — Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruths home run record and gracefully left his mark with 755 homers and a legacy as one of baseballs greatest all-around players, died Friday. He was 86. The Atlanta Braves, Aarons longtime team, said he died peacefully in his sleep. No cause was given. After learning of the baseball legends death, members of the Milwaukee Common Council issu...

Remembering Don Sutton Don Sutton, the Hall of Fame pitcher, has died at the age of 75 after a long fight against cancer. Sutton was a mainstay of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitching staff, but nearly began his career with Charlie Finley’s Oakland As. Imagine an As staff with Sutton plus Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Ken Holtzman, Blue Moon Odom, and Rollie Fingers. How did Oakland miss out on Sutton? The story, from Whitey Herzog who tried to sign Sutton for Finley, is that the pitcher wanted a si...

Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images Good morning afternoon, Athletics Nation! The New York Mets began the winter with a fresh start, but it didn’t last long. The team was bought by a new owner, Steve Cohen, and he overhauled the front office from scratch, led by president Sandy Alderson. Just over a month ago, they hired Jared Porter as their general manager, and not long afterward they made a blockbuster trade for superstar Francisco Lindor. But now the revamped organization has already hit i...

Hall of Famer Don Sutton passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75.

By Jeff J. Snider  |  Last updated 1/19/21 On January 19, 1972, former Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Just three weeks past his 36th birthday, “The Left Arm of God” became the youngest person ever elected to the Hall, a mark that still stands today (and probably forever). Every summer — or almost every summer, thank you very much pandemic — all the living Hall of Famers gather in Cooperstown, N...

Don Sutton notched 324 victories and pitched at least 200 innings in 20 of his first 21 seasons, with the strike-shortened 1981 season the only exception.

LOS ANGELES - Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valen