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'Home Run Kings' Hold Court at Riviera
Hank Aaron and Sadaharu Oh attend an event for the World Children's Baseball Fair at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 21, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Baseball greats Hank Aaron, Sadaharu Oh and Frank Robinson gathered at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades for a 20th anniversary luncheon for the World Children's Baseball Fair (WCBF) on Jan. 21, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Aaron and Oh founded the WCBF together in 1990, according the report.
The LA Times reported that Aaron and Oh were introduced as "home run kings" and even reminisced with the media about how the two met while staging a home run derby in Tokyo in 1974.
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Aaron and Robinson lightly touched on the subject of steroid use in baseball, but didn't linger too long, the LA Times reported. According to LA Times reporter Mike DiGiovanna, Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record, which was surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007.
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- For more information about the World Children's Baseball Fair, click here.
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