{"id":7139,"date":"2014-04-08T10:40:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2014-04-08T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:28:51","slug":"40th-anniversary-of-hank-aarons-historic-home-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/08\/40th-anniversary-of-hank-aarons-historic-home-run\/","title":{"rendered":"40th Anniversary of Hank Aaron&#8217;s historic home run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7140\" alt=\"aaron715\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/aaron715.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/aaron715.jpg 593w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/aaron715-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forty year have passed since Hank Aaron became baseball&#8217;s all-time home run leader.<\/p>\n<p>While Barry Bonds has since displaced him as No. 1 all-time in home runs the moment that took place when Aaron connected with a pitch from Al Downing of the Dodgers will live on forever.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it was in that moment that a black man became baseball&#8217;s all-time home run leader but it was so much more. It became a moment that divided baseball history. Everyone who grew up following Aaron&#8217;s 715th home run would see it.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can watch Aaron&#8217;s home run and hear a little from the slugger in this MLB.com video<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=3224106&amp;topic_id=6479266&amp;width=400&amp;height=224&amp;property=mlb\" height=\"224\" width=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since retirement Aaron went on to be elected into baseball&#8217;s Hall of Fame and founded the Chasing the Dream foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves are at home and will hold a ceremony for Aaron, who will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN.com will have a reenactment of the event culminating at 9:07 ET with Aaron&#8217;s 715th home run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty year have passed since Hank Aaron became baseball&#8217;s all-time home run leader. While Barry Bonds has since displaced him as No. 1 all-time in home runs the moment that took place when Aaron connected with a pitch from Al Downing of the Dodgers will live on forever. Sure it was in that moment that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,640,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-hank-aaron","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","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=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}