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RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - terry - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 02:16 PM)terry Wrote: That leaves the question of Aaron's only 3-homer game -- who was the opponent and where did it happen?

Hint -- The first of Aaron's three homers was off a left-handed pitcher named Johnny.

(01-22-2021, 01:28 PM)Phogge Wrote: After further mental review I think Sid Gordon was gone so I’d say Bobby Thomson. Covington not there yet and Pafko was still pretty much in his prime.

We have a winner! Well done, Phogge!

Bobby Thomson broke his ankle in a spring training game in 1954, opening up a spot for Hank Aaron in the Braves' starting line-up.

That leaves the question of Aaron's only 3-homer game -- who was the opponent and where did it happen?

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - BobK - 01-22-2021

3 HRs off Johnny Podres

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Phogge - 01-22-2021

Johnny Antonelli.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - terry - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 05:35 PM)Phogge Wrote: Johnny Antonelli.

Yep, Johnny Antonelli was the pitcher who gave up Aaron's first homer. Aaron's other two homers were off Stu Miller and Gordon Jones.

Where was the game?

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Phogge - 01-22-2021

Seals Stadium. Antonelli hated the park.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - BobK - 01-22-2021

County Stadium

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - terry - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 06:34 PM)Phogge Wrote: Seals Stadium. Antonelli hated the park.

Yes, you got it! Aaron's only 3-homer game was at Seals Stadium in June, 1959.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - BobK - 01-22-2021

Wow. Great question and answer

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card - 01-22-2021

I am not positive, and I don't know how to check, but I think the following question and answer are correct:

Q: Who was the last Negro Leaguer to play in a Major League game?

A: Hank Aaron

We have indeed lost a lot of the big guns of baseball over the last 13 months.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - 82lsju - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 07:41 PM)Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card Wrote: I am not positive, and I don't know how to check, but I think the following question and answer are correct:

Q: Who was the last Negro Leaguer to play in a Major League game?

A: Hank Aaron

We have indeed lost a lot of the big guns of baseball over the last 13 months.

Quote:Hank Aaron was the last Negro league player to hold a regular position in Major League Baseball.

Minnie Miñoso was the last Negro league player to play in a Major League game when he appeared in two games for the Chicago White Sox in 1980.

Buck O'Neil was the most recent former Negro league player to appear in a professional game when he made two appearances (one for each team) in the Northern League All-Star Game in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_league_baseball#Last_Negro_leaguers

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card - 01-22-2021

(01-22-2021, 07:51 PM)82lsju Wrote:
(01-22-2021, 07:41 PM)Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card Wrote: I am not positive, and I don't know how to check, but I think the following question and answer are correct:

Q: Who was the last Negro Leaguer to play in a Major League game?

A: Hank Aaron

We have indeed lost a lot of the big guns of baseball over the last 13 months.

Quote:Hank Aaron was the last Negro league player to hold a regular position in Major League Baseball.

Minnie Miñoso was the last Negro league player to play in a Major League game when he appeared in two games for the Chicago White Sox in 1980.

Buck O'Neil was the most recent former Negro league player to appear in a professional game when he made two appearances (one for each team) in the Northern League All-Star Game in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_league_baseball#Last_Negro_leaguers

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Thanks for the correction. How could anyone forget Minnie Minoso? As you note, Hank Aaron was the last regular player, but Minnie got those late in life appearances.

BTW, if you are ever in Kansas City, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is definitely worth a stop. Could easily and very justifiably be a very negative place, but Buck O'Neil wouldn't allow it. Instead, it takes a bittersweet tone. Very well done, IMHO.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Phogge - 01-22-2021

Minoso played 15 seasons with an additional 8 AB’s at 50 and two at 54. Lifetime .298 and tenth all time in being hit by pitch.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Hank 91 - 01-23-2021

For those interested, here's something I wrote about Aaron. He was my first favorite player.

http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2021/01/22/in-memory-of-henry-aaron/

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Mick - 01-23-2021

(01-22-2021, 11:47 PM)Phogge Wrote: Minoso played 15 seasons with an additional 8 AB’s at 50 and two at 54.

Lefty O'Doul had his last at-bat in 1956 for the Vancouver Mounties at age 59. He hit a triple. At age 59.

(01-22-2021, 07:41 PM)Blue Hawk (Mizzou) Card Wrote: We have indeed lost a lot of the big guns of baseball over the last 13 months.

i don't know if he was a big gun, but four-time All-Star Eddie Robinson is 100 years old. 13 year MLB career with three years in the WWII Navy right in the middle. And Stanford very own Bobby Brown (born in SF, ex-Galileo) is 96.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - BobK - 01-23-2021

Robinson had three years in a row with 100 or more RBIs with the White Sox early 50s

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Mick - 01-23-2021

(01-22-2021, 01:16 PM)Embo Wrote: With mixed emotions, I am linking this article. I clearly recall reading it in 1992, when I used to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It has remained burned in my memory. I understand it may lead to suggestions that I leave politics out of this board. But it is incredibly relevant today, and not just because Hank Aaron. I have to ask - more than 46 years after number 715, and 28 years after this article was written - has our nation really progressed?

Sports Illustrated - Hank Aaron can't forget

"Up until 1870, it was legal for a man to beat his wife with a stick as long as it was no thicker than his thumb.

"What's changed?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0f1ptC788

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Phogge - 01-23-2021

Well Embo we have had a mixed race president and an Asian/AA vice president so I would say yep there has been change.

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Mick - 01-25-2021

Minority representation in the 116th Congress is 22%, including 55 black members, which is nearly proportional to African American population in America (13%) as are the four Native Americans (0.9%) based upon the 2010 census. There were 14 black members in the 92nd Congress (1971 - 1973), about 4x as many in 2021 vs. 1972. So...yeah, I'd say some very significant progress has been made.

There are 44 Latinx members, which slightly underrepresent the Latinx proportion in the United States. There were 7 Latinx members of the 92nd Congress, so there's more than 7x times as many in the 116th Congress. So...yeah, I'd say some very significant progress has been made.

There are 127 women in Congress, which underrepresents the number of women in the United States, but represents a significant increase over the 92nd Congress, which had 14 women, so about 9x as many. So...yeah, I'd say some very significant progress has been made.

Let's talk educational opportunities. The 2010 census shows that 60% of America is of a non-Hispanic Caucasian ethnicity. What percentage of Ivy League colleges, Stanford and the University of California system has a student body that is 60% or more Caucasian? I'll give you a hint. If you say "1" you're "over." How about 45% Caucasian, what percentage of those universities have 45% or more Caucasians among their students? Well, again, if you say "1", you're "over". Not a single UC, Ivy or Stanford has a student body that is 45% or more Caucasian, in a country that is 60% Caucasian.

To say "What's changed?" since 1972 is a crock...

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - BostonCard - 01-25-2021

*cough* no politics *cough*

(Mick, I know you were replying to another poster, so this is not meant to call you out, but rather to prevent it from being turned into a back and forth on race relations in the US)

BC

RE: OT: RIP Hank Aaron - Mick - 01-25-2021

(01-25-2021, 10:59 AM)BostonCard Wrote: *cough* no politics *cough*

(Mick, I know you were replying to another poster, so this is not meant to call you out, but rather to prevent it from being turned into a back and forth on race relations in the US)

BC

I fully and firmly commit to no politics henceforth. Mea culpa