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RIP Hank Aaron

DJDuck
DJDuck Member Posts: 5,970
edited January 2021 in Tug Tavern



Baseball Hall of Famer and former MLB home run king Hank Aaron dies at 86

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2021/01/22/hank-aaron-baseball-hall-of-famer-dies/437341002/
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,078
    edited January 2021



    People forget Hammerin' Hank took another person of color deep on his record breaking long ball.

    And shoutout to the Atlanta @Swayes baseball team.



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  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,010 Standard Supporter
    I got to meet him at the airport long ago. It was late and the place was empty and he was by himself. My boss and I had a great conversation with him. A super nice guy. I am happy to see he lived a good long and happy life.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,887 Founders Club
    I know Hank had 755

    I don't know the Bonds number without Google
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  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,010 Standard Supporter
    Honestly I don't know the new number because steroids made me lose interest.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    Bendintheriver said:

    Honestly I don't know the new number because steroids made me lose interest.

    That and baseball just isn't the sporting attraction it once was in this country. Now tell me who the current heavyweight boxing champion is?
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  • ramenduck
    ramenduck Member Posts: 734
    SFGbob said:

    Is there a person over 50 who didn't know the number of HRs Ruth had hit? Now tell me what the current HR record is and how many 10 year old school kids today do you think know that number. We all knew what the number 714 meant back in the early 70s as did every school kid since the 1930s

    Great post. I’m a hair younger, but I had the same relationship with 755 throughout the 80s/90s/00s. Rolled my eyes when Bonds broke it. I was hopeful for Jr.

    No one got close who wasn’t later exposed as a roidhead. Knee jerk compression changes in the ball to combat sagging ratings also didn’t help. Baseball destroyed a record that should be revered.
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    edited January 2021
    SFGbob said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    Honestly I don't know the new number because steroids made me lose interest.

    That and baseball just isn't the sporting attraction it once was in this country. Now tell me who the current heavyweight boxing champion is?
    Tyson Fury, and he’s as good a champion there has been since the younger Kiltschko was in his prime in the early 2010s.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    NorthwestFresh said:

    SFGbob said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    Honestly I don't know the new number because steroids made me lose interest.

    That and baseball just isn't the sporting attraction it once was in this country. Now tell me who the current heavyweight boxing champion is?
    Tyson Fury, and he’s as good a champion there has been since the younger Kiltschko was in his prime in the early 2010s.
    Well there is always the freak who is the exception to the rule. Now how many 10 year old's do you think know that?
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    True

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  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,681 Founders Club
    Unrelated

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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    LoneStarDawg said:

    Unrelated

    Quite the coincidence.

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  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,681 Founders Club
    I’ve got a doctor friend, they had a 39ypo patient get a massive stroke 15 min after the vaccine.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,137
    NorthwestFresh said:

    SFGbob said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    Honestly I don't know the new number because steroids made me lose interest.

    That and baseball just isn't the sporting attraction it once was in this country. Now tell me who the current heavyweight boxing champion is?
    Tyson Fury, and he’s as good a champion there has been since the younger Kiltschko was in his prime in the early 2010s.
    Klitscho was dominant but nobody is going to support a wooden Eastern European over a tough talking American.

    Fighting is about rivalries. That’s what has been lacking.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,887 Founders Club
    I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?

    The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray

    It just seems HARD to get traction these days.
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    RoadDawg55 said:

    NorthwestFresh said:

    SFGbob said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    Honestly I don't know the new number because steroids made me lose interest.

    That and baseball just isn't the sporting attraction it once was in this country. Now tell me who the current heavyweight boxing champion is?
    Tyson Fury, and he’s as good a champion there has been since the younger Kiltschko was in his prime in the early 2010s.
    Klitscho was dominant but nobody is going to support a wooden Eastern European over a tough talking American.

    Fighting is about rivalries. That’s what has been lacking.
    I’ll probably get Joshua-Fury on PPV if that ever happens. Would be the biggest fight in years for heavyweights.
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  • georgiaduck
    georgiaduck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,603 Swaye's Wigwam
    Bendintheriver said:

    I got to meet him at the airport long ago. It was late and the place was empty and he was by himself. My boss and I had a great conversation with him. A super nice guy. I am happy to see he lived a good long and happy life.

    On my daughter's 5th birthday we went to see the Braves on Opening day against the Cubbies. Crowd cheered when Mr Aaron was announced to throw out the first pitch. Daughter asked if he was new to the team. C'mon man she was five.
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    georgiaduck said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    I got to meet him at the airport long ago. It was late and the place was empty and he was by himself. My boss and I had a great conversation with him. A super nice guy. I am happy to see he lived a good long and happy life.

    On my daughter's 5th birthday we went to see the Braves on Opening day against the Cubbies. Crowd cheered when Mr Aaron was announced to throw out the first pitch. Daughter asked if he was new to the team. C'mon man she was five.
    That’s cool. I was on a MLB road trip with some friends and saw him throw out the first pitch in the old Milwaukee County Stadium in the mid-1990s. That place was a dump but great tailgating for a baseball crowd.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,078
    RaceBannon said:

    I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?

    The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray

    It just seems HARD to get traction these days.

    Boxing was the motherfucking shit in the 60's/70's/80's. Olympic boxing was AMAZING. Tacoma's own Davey Armstrong USA! USA! USA!

    Wide World Of Sports with the recorded versions of Ali fights. The Throbber just sprung a boner (TMI). Good times...

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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?

    The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray

    It just seems HARD to get traction these days.

    Boxing was the motherfucking shit in the 60's/70's/80's. Olympic boxing was AMAZING. Tacoma's own Davey Armstrong USA! USA! USA!

    Wide World Of Sports with the recorded versions of Ali fights. The Throbber just sprung a boner (TMI). Good times...

    One of my first sports memories was watching Larry Holmes TKO Ali. A few years later the Tex Cobb near-killing on national TV occurred and boxing was shunned to cable on PPV. That same month there was the Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini fight in Vegas where Duk Koo-Kim does in the ring and it took a few years until Tyson arrived on the scene to get boxing going again.

    Howard Cosell never called another boxing match after the Cobb fight. I was six years old and still remember all the blood.
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    PurpleThrobber said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?

    The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray

    It just seems HARD to get traction these days.

    Boxing was the motherfucking shit in the 60's/70's/80's. Olympic boxing was AMAZING. Tacoma's own Davey Armstrong USA! USA! USA!

    Wide World Of Sports with the recorded versions of Ali fights. The Throbber just sprung a boner (TMI). Good times...

    50s, 40s, 30s and 20s. The 3 biggest sports in the US used to be Baseball, Boxing and Horse Racing.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,787 Swaye's Wigwam
    I was lucky enough to see Larry Holmes fight in Atlantic City early 80's. Sat about 40 - 60 feet from ringside. Entire card was light heavy and heavy weight fights. When those guys land a punch you feel the concussion that close.

    I called it 'white chimp of the month club' for Holmes. I think he got stripped of the WBC title and the IBF started up about that time. He was 42-0 IIRC
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  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183
    Do you mean like this?


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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,787 Swaye's Wigwam
    oops CHUMP

    spell check doesn't check for logic I guess
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,098
    SFGbob said:

    Is there a person over 50 who didn't know the number of HRs Ruth had hit? Now tell me what the current HR record is and how many 10 year old school kids today do you think know that number. We all knew what the number 714 meant back in the early 70s as did every school kid since the 1930s

    The record is still 755
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    Inspiration noted. They killed the man.

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  • IceManLikeGervin
    IceManLikeGervin Member Posts: 331
    edited January 2021
    All of you people that post racist posts up in here, support casual societal racism and racist social policies-politicians in America are somehow giving condolences to Hank Aaron? Hank Aaron had to deal with his share of racist people like y'all up in here during his baseball career and life...RIP

    Hank Aaron, Home Run King Who Defied Racism, Dies at 86 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/sports/baseball/hank-aaron-dead.html

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhdNvNg60M
    Sports Century Documentary- Hank Aaron

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66lmbROA58
    Biography: Hank Aaron Baseball Player & Civil Rights Activist
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    RaceBannon said:

    I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?

    The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray

    It just seems HARD to get traction these days.

    The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.

    Hearns
    Hagler
    Leonard
    Chavez
    Duran
    Aguello
    Pryor
    Ali
    Holmes
    Norton
    Frazier
    Holmes
    Foreman
    Tyson
    Holyfield

    So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
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  • NorthwestFresh
    NorthwestFresh Member Posts: 7,972
    dflea said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I grew up with boxing and big fights and never got into MMA but isn't MMA far more popular among the younger generations?

    The heavyweight title fight was always a big event up through Tyson. Even middleweights like Hagler, Hearns, and Sugar Ray

    It just seems HARD to get traction these days.

    The fights back in the day were great. They were great because of the boxers.

    Hearns
    Hagler
    Leonard
    Chavez
    Duran
    Aguello
    Pryor
    Ali
    Holmes
    Norton
    Frazier
    Holmes
    Foreman
    Tyson
    Holyfield

    So many great fights between those guys. Loads of thrill of victory and agony of defeat.
    Aaron “The Hawk” Pryor was my favorite boxer on those ABC Saturday afternoon fights. He was a small welterweight version of Mike Tyson before there was Tyson.

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