Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verbal Abuse. Aaron then took his first plane ride−to join the Braves' farm team in Eau Claire, Wis., where he hit .336 and was named rookie of the year. Next season he moved up to Jacksonville and led the Sally League in everything but hot-dog sales. He was named the league's most valuable player, and he also committed more errors than any other second baseman. It was then that the Braves decided to put him in the outfield. The first black to play in the Sally League, Aaron could not eat or stay...
...Aaron was equally inconspicuous when he joined the Braves for spring training in 1954. "If I said three words," he says, "it was an upset. I just wasn't any kind of talker." The anonymity soon faded when Braves Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his leg in an exhibition game and Aaron was told, "Kid, it's your job until somebody takes it away from...
Today there is no removing Aaron, the private person, from the public eye. Ironically, the acclaim that was denied him through much of his career now threatens to overwhelm him. In defense, he has developed stock answers for the stock questions that he hears every day. What do you have to do to break Ruth's mark? "Hit more home runs." How do you feel about Ruth? "I'm not trying to make anyone forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron." What is your reaction to the hate mail? "The more they push...
...generation's box score, a monument of talent, accomplishment and appetite. George Herman Ruth−the glorious Babe of baseball−was and is the nation's finest sports legend. No one will ever replace him as the Sultan of Swat. Without Ruth, Hank Aaron and future sluggers would have no standard of greatness to be measured against...
...could have hit .400 (his career average was .342) if he had concentrated on meeting the ball for mere base hits rather than swinging for the fences, Ruth replied: "Four hundred? Hell, kid, I could have hit .500." He probably could have. But that would have left Hank Aaron no one to chase...