Oops. This is indeed awkward – ‘Proud’ Aaron receives COVID-19 vaccine
Then he died.
ht/ fdr in hell
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Seems that every day we lose an icon of my formative years.
Non-Steroid user that could park a ball in the cheap seats with a funny flick of his wrists.
Aww 🙁
And they’re declaring DC the 51st!
Didn’t have COVID. Got the vax and he’s dead within 2 weeks.
Troubling. Makes me wary.
RIP Henry Aaron. Remarkable man.
Phenry: Heard that too on Rush show NOT the fake news!!
Well said, Fur. We ARE losing icons from our youth. I’ve been watching What’s My Line and yearning for the old days.
Our Little League team would travel to Atlanta to see the Braves play. Hank was usually right there in front of the cheap seats. He consistently came over and chatted with us during warm ups. Encouraging and exciting to have a ‘real player’ pay attention to us. Those memories were magnified when just a few years later, he broke the record. He had class and made some life-long Aaron and Braves fans!
@southern reality.
How cool was that? I’m jealous.
I lived inside the I-285 Loop (it was safe then) when Aaron and the Braves started playing in Atlanta in 1966. Saw him in many home games until I went into the military in 1972. He was a great player.
God bless you Hank & rest peacefully.
Can we get a dose to Crapernick & Deshaun Watson?
I know EXACTLY where I was when we landed on the moon and I know EXACTLY where I was when Hammerin’ Hank broke the Babe’s HR record. Honestly, I was pulling for Wille Mays to break it first…..Oh well….
Can you name the pitcher that gave up that famous HR pitch without looking it up?…..
I watched on TV as he hit number 715. Some people (liberals, I suspect) were afraid some racist red-neck backwoods hillbilly who chews baccy, lives in a shack, married his cousin, and always has a rifle at hand would assassinate Mr. Aaron for breaking the record. Didn’t happen. The only thing I remember is some long-haired kid ran onto the field and approached Hank between 2nd and 3rd base, whereupon Hank swatted him aside like a fly and continued onto 3rd.
The old Milwaukee Braves of the late 1950’s had one of the best teams in history. Imagine: Warren Spahn, Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, and lots of other very good players whose names I can no longer remember.
@Willy
Dodger pitcher – Dawson?…
@Willy
I remember now and did not look it up- Downing?
The UK was talking about saying that anyone who dies within 60 days of testing positive for Corona virus will be counting as a COVID death. Don’t know if the actually implemented that, though. But if you die within two weeks after getting the vaccine, the vaccine has nothing to do with it.
The UK government is now paying people £500 to anyone who tests positive. Way to drive the numbers up.
@ Anonymous…..Nope not Dawson…..I have a 1965 baseball card of this pitcher when he was a Dodger. He was a pretty good player who traveled the league a bit….Ended up with the Dodgers again and on that night….
@ Timbuktu….Yep, Al Downing. There was some talk that Downing served up a lollypop for Hank that night. It was crushed by a mutual interview between Al and Hank…..I’ll try to look it up. Great interview!….
I saw him at a party in Atlanta in the 90’s and he looked pretty old then.
Sad, another black man dead under the thumb of Klansman Biden.
Just this month Tommy Lasorda and now Henry Aaron, who’s next.
Another one, who DOESN’T hafta endure the SlowJoe / BlowHo insurrection. I suppose in one sense, we should be CELEBRATING his escape! 🤔
It’s Trump’s fault.
Biden kills Hank Aaron. Crickets from CNN.
Biden wasn’t in office for twenty four hours before he killed Hank Aaron.
I’ll bet he regrets taking that vaccine now…..
Hmmmm… Wunna the few shots that ya can’t chalk up to Black-On-Black crime…
God speed Hank.
Baseball used to mean a lot to me.
I still have my Hank Aaron baseball cards.
He always had that ‘baseball smile’ with a bat on his shoulder.
Thanks Mr. Aaron.
He was a Boy Scout…and continued to support Them after He was famous…Way Cool.
Which vaccine variant did he get?? I don’t like the stuff I’m reading about it. Sure you can trust the government, to screw things up real well.
Without looking it up, I knew it was ex-Yankee Al Downing. Okay, without looking it up, who served up Aaron’s 714th? Hint: He was a pretty good Reds hurler.
@Hippie
Let’s see…mid-70s Red pitchers…I got it…Bernie Sanders…yep…only he hasn’t retired yet…he’s a shoo-in for the Hall of Shame. He’s got a lifetime ERA average of over 10.000.
He had 5 consecutive 20 plus-game seasons with the Reds. But those were in his loss column. He never won even one game during that 5 year span.
Hippiecritic throws down…..I had to look it up.I couldn’t even remember a Reds pitcher from that era….Try me out with some Pirate or Cardinal players from that era…..nice question!….
Better keep a close eye on Andrew Young and Louis Sullivan who also got the shot with Hank. You won’t hear a peep, even if they got terribly sick, unless they join the Hammer.