On April 8, 1974 in Atlanta, 'Hammerin' Hank' broke the major league home run record that had stood for nearly 40 years.
"When a friend of mine asked me a couple of weeks ago, 'Do you realize how long it's been?' And I'm thinking, without going into much thought, I said, '25 years? He said,"Charlie, it's been 50 years!'" recalled baseball fan Charlie Russo.
Russo was one of 53,000 fans at Atlanta-Fulton county stadium that night. He captured"Hammerin' Hank's" 715th homer with his home movie camera. Author Michael MacCambridge writes in"The Big Time," his recent book about sports in the 1970s,"The chase for the record exposed the deep fault lines of America's long reckoning with race."
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