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April 8, 2008

On This Day….

by @ 11:20 am. Filed under 2008 Dodgers, Dodgers History

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’.”

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