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Paul Payne: Hank Aaron’s Passing Stokes Childhood Memories Of “The Chase” Saturday, January 23, 2021 - by Paul Payne Atlanta Braves legend Hank Aaron watches his historic 715th home run on April 8, 1974. Aaron died Friday at the age of 86. The chart the author maintained to chronicle Hank Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s career home run record. The scorebook signifying Aaron’s passing of Babe Ruth with his 715th career home run. Hearing the news that baseball legend Hank Aaron died surely sparked a flood of memories for those of us who grew up in the South long before TBS turn...

Henry Aaron's ordeal ended at 9:07 p.m. Monday. It ended in a carnival atmosphere that would have been more congenial to the man he surpassed as baseball's alltime home-run champion. But it ended. And for that, as Aaron advised the 53,775 Atlanta fans who came to enshrine him in the game's pantheon, "Thank God." Aaron's 715th home run came in the fourth inning of the Braves' home opener with Los Angeles, off the Dodgers' Al Downing, a lefthander who had insisted doggedly before the game that for him this night would be "no different from any other." He was wrong, for now he joins a company of...