It is difficult to overstate the greatness of Hank Aaron and the impact that he had on the game throughout his career. But as he entered the 1973 season with 673 lifetime home runs it became evident to baseball fans throughout the country that "Hammerin' Hank " not yet 40 had a great chance at breaking the most hallowed of all baseball records that of Babe Ruth's career 714 home runs. It was not lost on fans that Aaron was part of the first generation of African-American ballplayers to play Major League Baseball and now 20 years later he stood on the precipice of shattering a record set by the game's greatest name. Aaron would club 40 home runs in 1973 finishing the season at 713 just one shy of Ruth's record. He hit his 40th on the next-to-last day of the season but with the Braves at home against the hapless Houston Astros Aaron was shut down by star pitcher Dave Roberts and Don Wilson and went home to think about the looming record for the entire winter. The Braves' first game of 1974 was played at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati home of the 1973 NL West Champion Reds. Aaron was penciled into the cleanup spot in the order that day and after Reds' starter Jack Billingham let the first two runners on base Aaron's first swing deposited the ball over the left centerfield fence putting the Braves ahead and tying the mighty Babe's record. Presented here is a ticket stub from that record-tying game a $5.00 loge box seat for the most important home run of the modern era. In VG condition the stub has some paper remnants at the perforation and a slight bit of water staining along the top edge certainly not consequential enough to detract from the presentability of the piece. An outstanding document of one of the most important at-bats of the 1970s.