{"id":491,"date":"2007-08-09T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/hank-aarons-speech-after-hr-756\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:11:06","slug":"hank-aarons-speech-after-hr-756","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/hank-aarons-speech-after-hr-756\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Aaron&#8217;s Speech after HR #756"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hammerin&#8217; Hank&#8217;s speech after Barry Bonds broke the home run record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hank Aaron Message to Barry Bonds\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eM-k5_FzlqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The full transcript of Hank Aaron&#8217;s speech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would like to offer my congratulations to Barry Bonds on becoming baseball&#8217;s career home run leader. It is a great accomplishment which required skill, longevity and determination,&#8221; Aaron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Throughout the past century, the home run has held a special place in baseball, and I have been privileged to hold this record for 33 of those years. I move over now and offer my best wishes to Barry and his family on this historical achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My hope today, as it was on that April evening in 1974, is that the achievement of this record will inspire others to chase their own dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of Hank Aaron&#8217;s jersey that I took last month at FanFest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/774443633\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1303\/774443633_ed64ae7f02.jpg\" alt=\"Hammerin' Hank\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammerin&#8217; Hank&#8217;s speech after Barry Bonds broke the home run record. The full transcript of Hank Aaron&#8217;s speech: &#8220;I would like to offer my congratulations to Barry Bonds on becoming baseball&#8217;s career home run leader. It is a great accomplishment which required skill, longevity and determination,&#8221; Aaron said. &#8220;Throughout the past century, the home run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7,19],"tags":[153,281,131],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-san-francisco-giants","category-sports","category-video","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sfgiants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}