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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
While I was bit too young to appreciate the momentous nature of the moment, Aaron breaking Ruth's HR record seems to me to have been easily the most significant baseball moment in the last 50-75 years. Front page next morning on every single newspaper in the country. Not true of most of the things identified above.
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How many moments have a whole social context layered onto their baseball significance? Not many. Remember, this was an America only 6 years removed from the King assassination and the summer of 1968 riots, and this was a Black man in the deep South breaking the most sacred record of all. Listening to the Vin Scully call should be mandatory.
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