Getting your player ready...
The moment is frozen in time: Hank Aaron rounding the bases after hitting his record 715th home run when, suddenly, two young fans ran up from behind to pat him on the shoulder. On Friday, Aaron reminisced with those who briefly shared his moment of glory April 8, 1974. “It’s wonderful to see them,” Aaron said of Britt Gaston and Cliff Courtenay, who were 17 when the slugger broke Babe Ruth’s career home run record. “I often get asked, ‘Whatever happened to those two guys?’ ” These days, Courtenay is an optometrist, and Gaston works in the real estate business.
