Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Mr. 44 Himself, Hank Aaron

 Here are some notes for you to follow as you listen. And yes, I will get a better microphone setup haha. I sound like I'm recording at the bottom of a well. I'm bunkering down!

We'll get better. This is just a trial run. Let me know what you think. 

Hank Aaron 83
Hammerin Hank 61/115
The Hammer 46

Born February 5. Or February (42) + 5 = 47
February sums to 42.  Hence Black History Month.
47 is often coded with 33. A favorite of the Zionists
Breaks home run record in 74, the reverse of 47, with 755 Hrs
Seven Fifty Five = 74

MLB debut April 13th, 1954/ A date with 42 numerology
Final MLB appearance with Milwaukee Brewers on October 3rd, 1976.
44 for Georgia/Wisconsin

See how his career is just a cycle of 44?

Played 21 seasons for the Braves
21 is significant to Atlanta
Dominique Wilkins (21)
Deion Sanders (21)


This Super Bowl 50 will be 21 years since Atlanta's last and only championship that was won in 95/59.

Wiki notes:

“As a result of his standout play with the Indianapolis Clowns, Aaron received two offers from MLB teams via telegram, one from the New York Giants and the other from the Boston Braves. Years later, Aaron remembered:
"I had the Giants' contract in my hand. But the Braves offered fifty dollars a month more. That's the only thing that kept Willie Mays and me from being teammates – fifty dollars."[15]

“The Braves purchased Aaron from the Clowns for $10,000,[18] which GM John Quinn thought a steal as he stated that he felt that Aaron was a $100,000 property.[14] On June 12, 1952, Aaron signed with Braves' scout Dewey Griggs.[14] During this time, he picked up the nickname 'pork chops' because it "was the only thing I knew to order off the menu."[19] A teammate later said, "the man ate pork chops three meals a day, two for breakfast.”

John Quinn = 50
Pork chops = 49
Dewey Griggs = 66.
The Braves move to Atlanta in 66. The same year the Falcons began play.

In 1963, Aaron nearly won the triple crown. He led the league with 44 home runs and 130 RBI and finished third in batting average.[nb 1] In that season, Aaron became the third player to steal 30 bases and hit 30 home runs in a single season. Despite that, he again finished third in the MVP voting. The Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta after the 1965 season. In 1968, Aaron was the first Atlanta Braves player to hit his 500th career home run, and in 1970, he was the first Atlanta Brave to reach 3,000 career hits

On June 21, 1959, against the San Francisco Giants, he hit three two-run home runs. It was the only time in his career that he hit three home runs in a game.

During his days in Atlanta, Aaron reached a number of milestones; he was only the eighth player ever to hit 500 career home runs, with his 500th coming against Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants on July 14, 1968—exactly one year after former Milwaukee Braves teammate Eddie Mathews had hit his 500th.[38] Aaron was, at the time, the second-youngest player to reach that plateau.[nb 2] On July 31, 1969, Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle's total; this moved Aaron into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth. At the end of the 1969 season, Aaron again finished third in the MVP voting.

In 1970, Aaron reached two more career milestones. On May 17, Aaron collected his 3,000th hit, in a game against the Cincinnati Reds, the team against which he played his first game.[39] Aaron established the record for most seasons with thirty or more home runs in the National League. On April 27, 1971, Aaron hit his 600th career home run, the third major league player ever to do so. On July 13, Aaron hit a home run in the All-Star Game (played at Detroit's Tiger Stadium) for the first time. He hit his 40th home run of the season against the Giants' Jerry Johnson on August 10, which established a National League record for most seasons with 40 or more home runs (seven). At age 37, he hit a career-high 47 home runs during the season (along with a career-high .669 slugging percentage) and finished third in MVP voting for the sixth time. During the strike-shortened season of 1972, Aaron tied and then surpassed Willie Mays for second place on the career home run list. Aaron also knocked in the 2,000th run of his career and hit a home run in the first All-Star game played in Atlanta. As the year came to a close, Aaron broke Stan Musial's major league record for total bases (6,134). Aaron finished the season with 673 home runs.

He was the recipient of death threats during the 1973-1974 offseason and a large assortment of hate mail from people who did not want to see Aaron break Ruth's nearly sacrosanct home run record.[42] The threats extended to those providing positive press coverage of Aaron. Lewis Grizzard, then sports editor of the Atlanta Journal, reported receiving numerous phone calls calling journalists "nigger lovers" for covering Aaron's chase. While preparing the massive coverage of the home run record, he quietly had an obituary written, afraid that Aaron might be murdered.[43]
Sports Illustrated pointedly summarized the racist vitriol that Aaron was forced to endure:
"Is this to be the year in which Aaron, at the age of thirty-nine, takes a moon walk above one of the most hallowed individual records in American sport...? Or will it be remembered as the season in which Aaron, the most dignified of athletes, was besieged with hate mail and trapped by the cobwebs and goblins that lurk in baseball's attic?"[44]
Hank Aaron hit his 755th and final home run on July 20, 1976, at Milwaukee County Stadium off Dick Drago of the California Angels, which stood as the Major League career home run record until it was broken in 2007 by Barry Bonds. Over the course of his record-breaking 23-year career playing Major League Baseball, Hank Aaron had a batting average of .305 with 163 hits a season, while hitting an average of just over 32 home runs a year and knocking home 99 runs batted in (RBIs) a year. He had 100+ RBI's in a season 15 times, including a record 13 in a row


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    1. Thanks!

      I'm thinking about a weekly type thing.
      Break down the latest findings in a podcast, while posting regularly. Gonna need something better than soundcloud!

      I'll probably get it rolling more towards the end of the year.

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