Related to yesterday’s baseball post, in one of the novels I’ve written for the Neverending Saga, the year is 1974 and two of my characters who are baseball fans discuss how Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves tied Babe Ruth’s record for the most home runs in April of that year. For fun, I looked up vintage Braves buttons and found this online:
To keep things balanced, I found an Astros button circa that same year, 1974:
My best to both teams. Play ball!
Baseball isn’t a commonly played sport here, but Babe Ruth is probably the only baseball player I have ever heard of.
That’s a great player to remember!