The Dallas Business Journal (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
In his bid for the Chicago Cubs baseball team, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban may have a little competition in the form of baseball legend Hank Aaron.
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Aera (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Could Hank Aaron return someday as a visitor to the stadium on Hank Aaron Drive?
Sabernomics (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
John Manasso writes on Hank Aaron’s role in Sports Properties Acquisitions Corp (SPAC), which is one of the final groups bidding to purchase the Chicago Cubs. The story was originally written for Atlanta Business Chronicle, but Sporting News Today also picked up the story, which you can read here for free as long as you [...]
The Baseball Card Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Before Topps' institutionalized exaltation of players like Pete Rose, Hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan, and Mickey Mantle, and Upper Deck's lavishly illustrated Baseball Heroes , hero worship was one of the many options in composing a baseball card set. Witness Fro Joy's 1928 Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig's face and facsimile signature on every card in the 1934 Goudey set. But most of all, feast your eyes on the...
The Joy of Sox (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
There are many seasons that could qualify as "The Year That Changed Baseball Forever". John Rosengren provides ample evidence that 1973 was one of them. Hank Aaron was closing in on Babe Ruth's hallowed career home run total; Willie Mays was with the Mets, playing in his last season; the Oakland A's, led by Reggie Jackson and united in their hatred of owner Charlie Finley, were defending their World...
The Starting Five (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Last year this time was such a proud time personally in the context of baseball. I couldn’t help but to smile for Barry Bonds broke the career home run record set by the great Hank Aaron. My only regret was not documenting the moment in the presence of my children. I’d texted a couple of [...]
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A year ago Thursday, Barry Bonds' 756th home run disappeared over the right-center-field fence, and Hank Aaron's face appeared on the Giants' jumbo screen, offering videotaped congratulations to the man who had just supplanted him as baseball's all-time home run king. read more
ShysterBall (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Tomorrow night is the 20th anniversary of the first game under the lights at Wrigley Field .* Today marks the first anniversary of Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's home run record. Both events were viewed by a non-trivial amount of people as harbingers of the end of the world. Amazingly, Mother Earth still spins. *As everyone knows, the first official game under the lights didn't occur until the following...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
SAN FRANCISCO One year ago today, history tainted or not was made at AT&T Park. At 8:51 p.m., Barry Bonds hit the 756th home run of his career to supplant Hank Aaron as Major League Baseball's all-time home run king and become the third record holder in 86 years. Barry Bonds was on top of the world a year ago after becoming Major League Baseball's all-time home run leader. A year later, he can't...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A year ago today, Barry Bonds' 756th home run disappeared over the right-center-field fence, and Hank Aaron's face appeared on the Giants' jumbo screen, offering videotaped congratulations to the man who had just supplanted him as baseball's all-time home run...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
A year ago today, Barry Bonds' 756th home run disappeared over the right-center-field fence, and Hank Aaron's face appeared on the Giants' jumbo screen, offering videotaped congratulations to the man who had just supplanted him as baseball's all-time home-run...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Barry Bonds' presence is still felt in San Francisco, yet it seems as if he vanished into the fog. It's a jarring dichotomy, Scott Miller says one year after Bonds dethroned Hank Aaron as the home run king.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Baseball legend Hank Aaron is getting credit for swaying a bunch of wealthy Yankees fans to pool their wealth and business acumen and bid more than $1 billion for the Chicago Cubs. Aaron made the suggestion at a board meeting of Medallion...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Next Thursday (Aug. 7) marks the one year anniversary of Barry Bonds breaking (or not, depending on your feelings about the role flaxseed oil may have played in the matter) Hank Aaron's career home run mark. As this space hath opined, it's a pretty damn baleful sign of the times that an event of that magnitude would inspire such skepticism and squirrely feelings (outside of San Francisco) as it approached...
Word Around the Net (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
"I can't speak for the other owners, but I will not sign Barry Bonds" -Angels owner Arte Moreno Remember Barry Bonds? The guy that was the biggest star in baseball, who was the focus on intense media attention last year? One of the greatest players in baseball history? He broke Hank Aaron's home run record last year in a festival of media attention. He was the most feared batter in baseball
