Hank Aaron had 755 home runs in while playing in the MLB. He only had 5 home runs in the three months he played for the Indianapolis Clowns in the League for black players. (Apparently, GoComics won’t allow me to call the league by its official name, because one of the words in that name is on the GoComics banned list.) That would only bring his HR total up to 760, still 2 fewer than Barry Bonds’ 262.
Moreover, MLB is only adding the that League’s records for the years from 1920 to 1948. That league collapsed as a competitive league in 1948 and after that date was more of a barnstorming league and was no longer playing at a major league level. So MLB isn’t adding any records from that League that came after 1948. As Hank Aaron played for the Clowns in 1952, his records from that League wouldn’t have been added to his stats anyway.
So either way, Hank Aaron won’t overtake Barry Bonds as the all-time home run leader; much as I wish it could be otherwise.
And in 1989, Metromedia Restaurant Group, the owner of the Ponderosa Steak Houses, purchased the Bonanza Steak House chain and combined the two. Today only 13 Ponderosas still exist to go with the 3 Bonanzas mentioned in the comic.
Much as I loved Trina’s work, there is one minor correction I want to make. Trina Robbins was the first female artist to illustrate “Wonder Woman” for DC Comics. That is, a comic book featuring Wonder Woman that contained Wonder Woman in the title. She drew the mini-series “The Legend of Wonder Woman,” which came out in 1986.
However in 1977 Wonder Woman appeared in the DC comic book “Super Friends,” based on the Hanna-Barbera animated series of the same name. The late Ramona Fradon, who also died this year, drew several issues of that comic. So Ramona Fradon was the first female artist to illustrate a story that contained Wonder Woman for DC comics.
So the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman was Ramona Fradon. The first female artist to draw “Wonder Woman” was Trina Robbins.
I was figuring out the meanings of lots of words from context when I was 5. It’s one of the tools kids use to improve their vocabulary. They may not know the name of what they’re doing or realize they’re even doing it, but they do figure out the meanings of new words from context all the time.
Case in point: waterspout. Where I grew up we usually called them downspouts, so when I heard “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” the first time, I wasn’t familiar with calling it a waterspout. But I was able to figure out that the song meant a downspout from context.
Hank Aaron had 755 home runs in while playing in the MLB. He only had 5 home runs in the three months he played for the Indianapolis Clowns in the League for black players. (Apparently, GoComics won’t allow me to call the league by its official name, because one of the words in that name is on the GoComics banned list.) That would only bring his HR total up to 760, still 2 fewer than Barry Bonds’ 262.
Moreover, MLB is only adding the that League’s records for the years from 1920 to 1948. That league collapsed as a competitive league in 1948 and after that date was more of a barnstorming league and was no longer playing at a major league level. So MLB isn’t adding any records from that League that came after 1948. As Hank Aaron played for the Clowns in 1952, his records from that League wouldn’t have been added to his stats anyway.
So either way, Hank Aaron won’t overtake Barry Bonds as the all-time home run leader; much as I wish it could be otherwise.