RIP, "Hammerin" Hank Aaron, you amazing man.
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
Before Hank went to the Braves and was still a segregated player for the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro League: "I feel this youngster is another Ted Williams in the hitting department."
Just one part of the unrelenting wave of racist screeds and death threats aimed at Hank in 1973, more than a year before he would break Babe Ruth's home run record.
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