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...Aaron began his major league baseball career facing death threats for being one of the first Blacks to play in the major leagues. He ended his career facing death threats for breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record...
...between, Aaron consistently showed why he is considered one of the greatest ever to play the game...
...Robinson, he has demonstrated to us how one can keep his poise under the pressure of racial difficulties and the various threats that he received from his fellow Americans as he attempted to break a world record," says S. Allen Counter Jr., director of the Harvard Foundation, who knows Aaron personally...
Class marshals say they are impressed by Aaron's successes and invited him partly because he has succeeded despite the hardships of racial prejudice...
Miller said the class also invited Aaron as an inspirational figure...