{"id":18084,"date":"2025-07-18T04:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18084\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T04:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T04:40:13","slug":"mlb-honors-hank-aaron-with-recreation-of-record-715th-homer-at-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18084\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB honors Hank Aaron with recreation of record 715th homer at All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Major League Baseball honored late Hall of Famer Hank Aaron<\/a> by recreating his record-breaking 715th home run through the use of projection mapping and pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n

The lights went down at Truist Park and fans stood holding their cell phone lights following the sixth inning of Tuesday night\u2019s All-Star Game. The scene from April 8, 1974 at old Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was projected on the infield and also shown on the video board.<\/p>\n

The high-tech images of Aaron and other players were seen on the Truist Park infield before a blaze of a fireball launched from home plate to signify the homer that pushed Aaron past Babe Ruth\u2019s record of 714 homers.<\/p>\n

Aaron\u2019s widow, Billye Aaron, stood and waved as the cheers from the sellout crowd of 41,702 grew louder.<\/p>\n

NL players warmed up for the game in batting practice jerseys with Aaron\u2019s No. 44 on the back<\/p>\n

One year ago, MLB celebrated the 50th anniversary<\/a> of Aaron\u2019s homer with announcements for a new statue at Baseball\u2019s Hall of Fame and a commemorative stamp from the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n

Also, Commissioner Rob Manfred helped honor Aaron in Atlanta last year by joining the Braves in announcing the $100,000 endowment of a scholarship at Tuskegee University, a historically Black university in Aaron\u2019s home state of Alabama.<\/p>\n

Manfred noted the Henry Louis Aaron Fund, launched by the Braves following Aaron\u2019s death in 2021, and the Chasing the Dream Foundation, created by Aaron and his wife were designed to clear paths for minorities in baseball and to encourage educational opportunities.<\/p>\n

Aaron hit 755 home runs from 1954-76, a mark that stood until Barry Bonds reached 762 in 2007 during baseball\u2019s steroid era. <\/p>\n

Aaron was elected to the Hall in 1982. A 25-time All-Star, he set a record with 2,297 RBIs. He continues to hold the records of 1,477 extra-base hits and 6,856 total bases.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Major League Baseball honored late Hall of Famer Hank Aaron by recreating his record-breaking 715th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[5786,2111,16732,1558,9092,681,15451,363,5529,2008,9099,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-18084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-barry-bonds","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-ga-state-wire","13":"tag-georgia","14":"tag-hank-aaron","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-mlb-all-star-game","17":"tag-mlb-baseball","18":"tag-rob-manfred","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}