Baseball Historians

April 15 isn’t just another ordinary day in the baseball world….it is the day to commemorate Jackie Robinson and all that he stands for.
The Dodgers hold this day as especially significant because it was with this team that Robinson broke the color barrier into baseball 61 years ago.
The signature ceremony for  Jackie Robinson Day will [...]

On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron hit his 715th homerun to break the Babe’s record. He did it at his home field in Atlanta off LA Dodger’s pitcher Al Downing.
Twenty years later, Downing had this to say about him serving up Aaron’s record-breaker:
“I never say ’seven-fifteen’ anymore. I now say ‘quarter after seven’.”