Babe Ruth’s career record. America had invested the number 714 with mythic significance, and Aaron discovered that many people resented a less charismatic figure relegating a legend to second place – especially when that man was black.
When he ended the 1973 season one short of Ruth’s record, Aaron was receiving as many as 3,000 letters a day, many of them spewing racist hatred, including death threats. “This changed me,” he said. “The letters remind me not to be surprised or hurt.
They remind me what people are really like. ”At the beginning of the 1974 season his team, the Atlanta Braves, opened up their campaign away from home with a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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