Popular Post Warfish 29,036 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/us/hank-aaron-dies-trnd/index.html Baseball, I know, but this man is a true legend of the game and his passing goes beyond just Baseball. The Sports world has lost a true all time great man and trailblazer today. RIP good sir. 10 8 4 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tranquilo 203 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Legend 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
freestater 12,317 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Damn, RIP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jet Life 1,615 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 True legend. RIP Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scott Dierking 134,871 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Man, baseball has lost some great ones over the last 12 months. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post JetPotato 3,748 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 The TRUE home run king 5 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Philc1 13,521 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 GOAT 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joewilly12 24,373 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 RIP Hammering Hank big part of my childhood. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jet Life 1,615 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 True legend. RIP Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Crusher 219,623 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 RIP. Great man. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Integrity28 73,584 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Hammer in peace. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
section314 8,846 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 A truly finer gentleman never graced this planet. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post jetophile 73,092 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 I'm on my break and just heard on the radio. RIP to a beacon of Civil Rights. He got death threats on the regular. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around that type and that level of hatred. FOR WHAT. It's so foreign to me because I just was not raised that way. I'm very thankful and very grateful for being raised in the environment that I was: colorful. As they say, prejudice begins in the home and ain't that the goddamn truth. RIP twice. 5 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
section314 8,846 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 5 minutes ago, jetophile said: I'm on my break and just heard on the radio. RIP to a beacon of Civil Rights. He got death threats on the regular. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around that type and that level of hatred. FOR WHAT. It's so foreign to me because I just was not raised that way. I'm very thankful and very grateful for being raised in the environment that I was: colorful. As they say, prejudice begins in the home and ain't that the goddamn truth. RIP twice. It absolutely does. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bungaman 848 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 And - he wasn't just a home run hitter. Almost got a triple crown more than once. An excellent fielder. At 6', 180 lbs, he wasn't some 'roided beast with a club. I was at Shea many years ago at a Mets-Braves game, and he hit an opposite field line drive home run that couldn't have been more than 25 feet from the ground, taking about three or four seconds to get to the bleachers. It was so hot people were diving to get AWAY from the ball as it screamed in. 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jetlife33 4,711 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, Scott Dierking said: Man, baseball has lost some great ones over the last 12 months. Insane how many big names we’ve lost in the baseball world. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DetroitRed 1,393 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 One of many athletes from that era who faced true racial injustice. Some of the dummies today need to read a book 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DetroitRed 1,393 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, JetPotato said: The TRUE home run king 755 is one of those numbers in baseball everybody knows. Nobody knows the fake number 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Jetsfan80 121,108 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 Aaron had to wait all offseason to hit # 715. He hit 714 late in 1973 but didn't break the record until the following season. For months he had to endure death threat after death threat upon him and his family, threatening him not to come back and break the record. He did it anyways. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
prime21 5,627 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Never given his due respect as a legend in the game. RIP 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DetroitRed 1,393 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 https://youtu.be/QjqYThEVoSQ 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
#27TheDominator 211,104 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 RIP to a legend of the game. My grandfather on my Mom's side was a Dodgers fan and always tried to get me to root for the Mets instead of the Yankees like my Dad. He would take me to Shea when I was little and I guess the Braves were a cheap ticket, so the first few games I went to featured Hank Aaron. When I finally got to the old Yankee Stadium, Aaron had gone to the Brewers to retire back in MIlwaukee and I ended up seeing him again. I thought he was every visiting team. Pretty sure that I saw him hit bombs in both leagues. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jets0712 712 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 RIP hammering Hank. The real HR KingSent from my iPhone using JetNation.com mobile app 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shawn306 36,775 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 3 hours ago, Scott Dierking said: Man, baseball has lost some great ones over the last 12 months. I mean it is getting ridiculous. Don Sutton the other day and now Aaron. I feel like I am losing a lot of my childhood 1 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jethead 1,378 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 One of the best no doubt. RIP Hammerin' Hank! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TMAC 486 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 More than two decades of baseball played at the highest level and always with utmost class. More than a great athlete. A great role model for all young Americans. May he rest in peace. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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slimjasi 10,316 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 RIP. True sports legend Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grandy 3,393 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Endured so much and was one of the best dang athletes ever. A great ballplayer, and human. He was such a good hitter that if you removed his record 755 HRs, he still has 3000 hits. 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
southparkcpa 7,938 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 12 hours ago, Warfish said: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/us/hank-aaron-dies-trnd/index.html Baseball, I know, but this man is a true legend of the game and his passing goes beyond just Baseball. The Sports world has lost a true all time great man and trailblazer today. RIP good sir. Top 5 of all time. Barry Bonds can sit at the back of the bus to Hank. A LEGEND in every sense of the word. I have no problem with him as number 2 in al time greats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jetophile 73,092 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 19 hours ago, DetroitRed said: One of many athletes from that era who faced true racial injustice. Some of the dummies today need to read a book This is why charlatans like Jussie Smollett should be vilified and ostracized and be ashamed of themselves for life. And here's looking at you, too, Tawana Brawley. This is all I'm going to say about it because I don't want to derail the thread, but said dummies need to realize that lying about heinous things - although rare - only cements the minds of true bigots about racial injustice and sexual assault and moves the needle back 100 years. Which brings me to Barry Bonds. All that guy did was pull the race card when he was chasing Babe Ruth's record when he was backed into a corner about steroids. OK, maybe there were some shi tty abhorrent racists who really were hateful about a black man about to break a white man's record, but Hank Aaron was having none of it. He essentially called him a belligerent tool and said racism, what do you know about racism. He was so insulted, he went out of his way to speak out about it and told him to shut his stupid mouth, lol. Anyone remember that? 'Cause I do. The best part was when The New York Post ran this: Prior to that they ran a variant, 'Curse of the Shambino', haha. This was also right around the time when Henry Aaron said he had no respect for Bonds and that he should shut up. Bonds' belligerence and blanket accusations of racism was a tool of deflection simply because the record was helped along by juicing. Major League Ownage. RIP thrice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jet Nut 16,117 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 #44, Hammering Hank, the one and only true HR King, the peoples HR King. As great as he was, as much adulation he's receiving today he was totally underrated, under appreciated. He was a great player a true 5 tool player, one of the all time greats, who endured a lot on his way past 714. RIP Hank Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN 3,178 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 21 hours ago, JetPotato said: The TRUE home run king Bonds is a fraud and a cheater . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jet Nut 16,117 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 3 minutes ago, SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN said: Bonds is a fraud and a cheater . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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