Posted on 04/07/2014 12:51:15 PM PDT by EveningStar
The home-run king is lucky he didn't have to contend with the ubiquitous bigots and haters on today's social media ...
We might conclude that Aaron got off easy four decades ago, long before social media dominated every facet of our lives and removed any shred of privacy.
Just try to imagine how much more intense and challenging his predicament would have been. Can you picture the potential for incessant racist taunts on Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the blogosphere? In the 1970s, the haters reached Aaron by what we call “snail mail.” Today, in our sped-up-world of modern communications, Aaron would have had no escape...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The sports fans I hung out with (mostly white) didn’t have a problem with it. Most people want to see records set in their lifetime. (except when you are juicing to do it). I didn’t know Aaron, but I never saw any negative associated with him. Maris may have had tougher time when he passed Ruth’s 60.
Sad. The truth is that Aaron, who was quite conservative, WOULD be hated today - by leftists. The author obviously didn’t do much reading on Aaron.
I tire of this too.
Fishing, casting out there, will anyone bite?
Substantive conversations if you please.
I remember that. Hear the thousands of white bigots shouting the N word.. and at the end of this short video two whites rush from the stands and attack Aaron as he heads for home plate.
Hint: must be wearing your liberal / progressive hat to actually see it that way.
Ridiculous
If Hank Aaron was chasing Babe Ruth's record in today's age of computer databases and baseball sabermetrics, I think a lot more attention would be paid to the peculiar career Aaron had as a baseball star. He held the career home run record for a long time, but he was never really much of a "slugger" in the traditional sense of the word. In his best season he hit only 47 home runs, and I believe he only won three HR titles in his long career.
Aaron was a line-drive hitter with strong wrists who hit a lot of home runs because happened to play most of his career in small ballparks. Oddly enough, his home run record has overshadowed the fact that he was a magnificent all-around hitter. He's still #3 on the all-time list with 3,771, and he has a higher career batting average than Pete Rose (who has very little to his credit beyond his records as a singles hitter).
And here's what I consider to be one of the most amazing baseball numbers of all time: Hank Aaron would still be a member of the 3,000-hit club even if you took his 755 career home runs out of his hit total!
B.S.!
This nation accepted BARRY BONDS....a juicing, cheating, cocky, arrogant, obnoxious, two-faced jerk as Home Run King, and did so rather graciously. And he is as black as anyone on the planet.
Hank Aaron is a saint compared to this guy. America would embrace him whole-heartedly if he set the record today.
YES! You nailed it!
Sammy Sosa, a Black Hispanic, was similarly embraced.
Sarcasm?..... then I saw Time. Well maybe not. Maybe they really do believe this crap.
Big Papi is a god in Boston-—an extremely loved sports figure.
Things are much better than they were in Aaron’s day,much better.
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For reasons I will never comprehend, black ballplayers from the Dominican, Cuba, Venezuela and Panama are not considered authentically “black” by our Race Hustlers.
But I never heard or read anything racist toward this Home Run King.
So, did Jon Friedman learn his racism at the feet of President Simba, the “media community organizer”, or is his racism home-grown?
And today, young African American Thugs mock, ridicule and steal from Black Native Africans.
I refuse to click on ANY lefty links on FR like the Guardian, NY Slimes etc. There should be a law here to avoid giving these bastards a click point.
And BTW, even on ESPN they keep bitching about how less homeys’ are in the game. Liberal white guilt must really be rampant among these libtards..
The author read that somewhere.
He wrote it down, and then he read it.
Time magazine just makes up the news now.
No wonder you have to go to a dentist's office to find it. Like Highlights magazine.
“”Hank Aaron is a saint compared to this guy. America would embrace him whole-heartedly if he set the record today.””
No, you are wrong. Just shut up and get away from the keyboard and listen to the liberal progressive message.
All white people are bad... only white people hate other races... white people hate black people... white people attack and kill black people... black people never do anything wrong... black people are never racist.
Now, the good people at Time and other pussyfied news outlets have told you this over and over so get with the program.
Racist.
yeah, it was pretty ugly. Just a decade earlier, it wasn’t too pretty for Maris when he was chasing Ruth’s 60 (though Mantle would have been acceptable to most). Throw in a black guy and things got even worse for Hammerin’ Hank. But to pretend it would be a problem now is just ludicrous. Hell, people don’t even acknowledge Bonds “passing” Aaron, because Aaron’s record has people’s respect. That alone should be proof enough this theory is crap. Yeah - people really hated Henderson when he beat out Cobb. Hell, people hated Cobb for being racist pr!ck. THis writer needs someone to explain baseball history to him.
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