https://www.mlb.com/news/the-three-b...715th-home-run
50 years ago today Hammerin' Hank passed the Babe. Still gives me all the chills to watch it years later. I can't imagine what it would have been like and felt like to watch it in real time.
No slight intended but I'm pretty sure this is the first time I heard Curt Gowdy's call of that home run. I only ever remember hearing Milo Hamilton's and Vin Scully's calls.
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"The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946
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