{"id":2465,"date":"2016-04-08T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2016-04-08T07:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:34:49","slug":"ticket-please-hank-aaron-hits-715-481974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/ticket-please-hank-aaron-hits-715-481974\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Please: Hank Aaron Hits #715, 4\/8\/1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t need me to provide a history lesson on the importance of April 8, 1974 in sports history. All you need to know is on that day, Hank Aaron cemented his place in baseball immortality by hitting his 715th home run &#8212; off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing &#8212; and passed Babe Ruth as MLB&#8217;s all-time Home Run King.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a ticket stub from that game, played at Atlanta Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2466\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hank-aaron-715-ticket.jpg\" alt=\"Hank Aaron Hits #715, 4\/8\/1974, ticket stub from Atlanta Stadium\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hank-aaron-715-ticket.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hank-aaron-715-ticket-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hank-aaron-715-ticket-360x200.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ticket stub from 4\/8\/1974 at Atlanta Stadium, the day Hank Aaron hit home run #715 to become Major League Baseball&#8217;s all-time Home Run King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[59,309,16,321,46,213,111],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticket-please","tag-1970s","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-hank-aaron","tag-mlb","tag-records","tag-tickets","wpcat-110-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}