Posted on 01/22/2021 12:09:23 PM PST by sodpoodle
Still no stimulus check? Biden executive order aims to speed up payments for… Democrats may have regained the Senate, but McConnell is blocking… Sportsnaut logoMLB world mourns death of Atlanta Braves legend Hank Aaron
Hank Aaron, the Hall of Famer slugger who starred with the Atlanta Braves, has passed away at the age of 86.
Just days after the MLB world mourned the loss of pitching icon Don Sutton, the game’s one-time home run king died on Friday morning in Atlanta.
The heartbreaking news, first reported by CBS 46, has since been confirmed by a close family member and a former Braves official.
Aaron got his start in baseball with the Indianapolis Clowns on the Negro League in 1951. Before long, he quickly caught the attention of MLB. After signing with the Braves, he spent the next few seasons in the minor leagues before making his MLB debut in 1954.
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Anyone notice that they have nothing to say about the cause of his death or the condition of his health before he died. I wonder how he was feeling after getting that shot?
All I ever heard him talk about was how unfairly he’d been treated all his life due to racism.
I watched Hank Aaron play at Braves stadium many times. He was great!
Don’t forget it was the Milwaukee Braves until the Bartholomew Brothers (Spit!) bought them, promised to keep them in Milwaukee, and them moved them to Atlanta.
Sad to see him go, he was a very classy person and a tremendous athlete. No steroids for him - he did what he did the old fashioned way - grit and an unwillingness to give up despite injuries physical and emotional. Sincere condolences to his family.
If you had gone through what he did in his life in terms of bad treatment due to your race, you might think differently.
I’m as white as can be, and as right-wing as can be, but read the man’s biography - preferably something written more than 30 years ago that is untainted (or at least largely so) by the PC nonsense. He (and all other black players) went through absolute Hell during the ‘50s and most of the ‘60s. That tends to color (no pun intended) your view of the world.
FWIW, I sincerely doubt that his words influenced more than a few people, politically. No one ever thought “Hank Aaron” when they had a political question to solve and needed the name of someone to help them out.
And that was probably true for at least a good half of his career, but like the Green Bay Packers after them, the Milwaukee Braves tried hard to resist the racism of the day. I learned these sports following both of these teams and never felt nega-negro. I feel so blessed that my youth was lived through the Lombardi years and with the only major league team to NEVER incur a losing season, the Milwaukee Braves!
Amen to that, and glad to read that (I had forgotten about what the Babe’s widow had said).
I always liked sports as a young person, because how well you did depended only on...how well you did. The ball, track, discus, shot put, javelin, etc. didn’t give a damn about your name, your color, whether you were popular, how rich your old man was, your religion, etc., etc. That is how the world should ideally work.
Don’t get me started on the owners, players and reporters, or the idiotic antics of any of them in the last 25-30 years. They are, as a group, disgraceful and have ruined those sports.
Good post there. A person is best judged within the context of his times. That’s something we conservatives insist upon when evaluating historical figures like Columbus and Jefferson. Aaron deserves no less consideration.
3 guys, not 4.
Ruth also did it with a dead ball for much of his career.
However, you’re not entirely correct about the stadium dimensions helping Aaron and not Ruth. The right field seats in Yankee stadium in 1923 were only 257 feet at the flagpole, and under (or just barely over) 300 feet for the rest of Ruth’s career there. It was called “The House that Ruth Built” for a couple of reasons, and those short bleachers in right field helped him hit homers every bit as much as the short LF wall in Atlanta helped Aaron.
“All I ever heard him talk about was how unfairly he’d been treated all his life due to racism.”
Read any bio of him written prior to PC invading our literature, say from about 30 or more years ago - it will open your eyes a bit. They were treated like $hit.
just because he disagrees with what you believe, doesn’t mean he wasn’t a class act.
This is what virtue signalling can get you.
Sorry, I dont have any liberal white guilt. I checked it out years ago..
The vaccine industry does not serve well , the health of humanity
More harm
Than good
Just my opinion
‘tis better to maintain antibiotic levels at the point where bugs don’t get a population going in you. Viruses or bacteria Kill them
Not sure, I think that was Kaiser hospital(Im a member of Kaiser) but most places around here are giving moderna, dodger stadium, etc..but CSUN and The Forum in Inglewood are giving Pfiser but they are booked til April
True, but the RF gap at Yankee stadium in the 1920’s was 429’ and Center was 487’
There was also a catch to that short corner in Ruth’s day, because the foul pole wasn’t part of the game until 1930 and it was where the ball landed that decided if it was a home run or not.
So Homerun shots that hit the foul pole or hook around it today and in Aaron’s day would have been called foul balls in Ruth’s day.
I believe I read somewhere that if the foul pole was around when Ruth started his career he would’ve had about 75 more career homeruns.
Some of this is also media generated. Sports Illustrated focuses on the racial angle. Most of the media will too.
Sportsmen who died when Ruth or Cobb did, didn't get a big deal made out of them hating White people or hating Black people. They were honored for their achievements on the field.
Good evening,
I have reviewed the literature. The effects of the vaccine that are considered adverse are reported to be anaphylaxis or anaphylactoid like reactions. They usually appear within an hour or two of the vaccine.
In a wide distribution of vaccination, there will be some deaths in the month or so after the vaccination that are unrelated to the vaccine. There have been no reports of fatality 2 - 4 weeks thus far from the vaccine. There are infections in the so called window period, but as of yet after an extensive literature search there are not deaths caused by either Pfizer of Moderna at two hours, two weeks, or two months thus far.
Thank you for pinging me. I will keep my nose in case reports.
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