# Hammerin' Hank now plays for Heaven's team **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [January 22, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hammerin-hank-now-plays-for-heavens-team/931219 "2021-01-22T16:27:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hammerin-hank-now-plays-for-heavens-team/931219/6 "2021-01-22T16:50:47Z")
Aw, man! This totally sucks! I’m compelled to repost this from 2004: > [@It was thirty years ago today...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-thirty-years-ago-today/238965): > > April 8, 1974. Opening day at the old Atlanta Stadium (before the name was changed to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium). Hank Aaron had finished the previous season with a lifetime total of 713 home runs and was poised to tie, then break Babe Ruth’s lifetime record of 714. The Braves opened on the road in Cincinnati in ’74, and Braves management had floated the idea of having Aaron sit out the games in Cincy so he could both tie and break the Babe’s record in front of the home crowd. But Commis… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hammerin-hank-now-plays-for-heavens-team/931219)._