1974 Major League Baseball season 1974 Major League Baseball season The 1974 Major League Baseball season. The Oakland Athletics won their third consecutive World Series, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to one. Two notable personal milestones were achieved during the 1974 season. The first came on April 8, when Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves blasted his 715th career home run, breaking the all-time career home run mark of 714 set by Babe Ruth. Aaron would finish his career with 755 home runs, a record that would stand until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007. The second milestone came on September 10, when
Aaron Holbert Aaron Holbert Aaron Keith Holbert (born January 9, 1973, in Torrance, California) is a former Major League Baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds. He was promoted from the Triple-A Louisville Bats, the Cincinnati Reds' highest minor league team, on August 16, , to replace Ryan Freel, who had been placed on the 15-day disabled list earlier that day. That marked the second time he had been on a regular season Major League roster, as he was on the roster of the St. Louis Cardinals for one game in , going 0 for 3. The gap of