Wow, what a great story! Thanks for sharing that with us.

And I see we were almost neighbors all those years ago. I was born in Atlanta (1962 vintage, at Georgia Baptist Hospital in downtown) and about a month later we moved to a brand new house built in a new neighborhood near Morrow (though we had a ‘Forrest Park’ address), right adjacent to I-75. Years later after we had moved to Augusta, a mall, Southlake Mall, was built not very far at all from the neighborhood we lived in then. Gosh, that entire area where that mall went up was nothing but tall grass and scrub pines when we lived in that area!

Anyway, we moved from the Atlanta area in the summer of 1970, but I have vivid memories as a VERY young kid of seeing Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium being built in the mid-1960s there just south of the city (my Dad worked at Georgia Tech and we quite often it seemed went into downtown Atlanta and right past the stadium there on I-75).

Sadly however, during those years in Atlanta after the Braves (and Falcons) arrived, we never went to a game there. I so wish we would have been able to attend a game then. Could have had some great memories like you had. But, we followed the Braves nonetheless and were very happy those years later in ‘74 when Hank hit #715.

Earl

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