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
Hank Greenwald for the San Francisco Giants game on the June 14, 2015 broadcast on KNBR. Hank Greenwald Howard "Hank" Greenwald (June 26, 1935 — October 22, 2018) was a Major League Baseball announcer, known best for being a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. Greenwald changed his name from Howard to Hank to honor Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg. He began his broadcasting career calling football games for his alma mater Syracuse University. He was also a broadcaster for the former NBA team, the Syracuse Nationals. In the 1960s, he broadcast Hawaii Islanders baseball in the Pacific Coast