{"id":6331,"date":"2014-02-11T19:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2014-02-11T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T00:04:18","slug":"braves-to-wear-40th-anniversary-patch-in-honor-of-hank-aaron-breaking-hr-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/11\/braves-to-wear-40th-anniversary-patch-in-honor-of-hank-aaron-breaking-hr-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves to wear 40th anniversary patch honoring Hank Aaron breaking HR record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/hankhaaron.jpg\" alt=\"hankhaaron\" width=\"456\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/hankhaaron.jpg 456w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/hankhaaron-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This season will mark 40 since Hank Aaron topped Babe Ruth in all-time home runs. To mark this accomplishment the Atlanta Braves will honor Aaron&#8217;s accomplishment by wearing a special 40th Anniversary patch all season long.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron is now 80 and finished his big league career with 755 home runs. Aaron also has records with 2297 RBI and 6856 total bases.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YEqDcHz40hw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aaron&#8217;s home run came on April 8, 1974 against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully when April 8 comes around the Braves will wear some sort of alternative jersey that night even as they are scheduled for a road game that night against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season will mark 40 since Hank Aaron topped Babe Ruth in all-time home runs. To mark this accomplishment the Atlanta Braves will honor Aaron&#8217;s accomplishment by wearing a special 40th Anniversary patch all season long. Aaron is now 80 and finished his big league career with 755 home runs. Aaron also has records with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,640,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-hank-aaron","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}