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...world has turned. New wars have been fought and settled, dictatorships established and overthrown, but Hank Aaron endures. The wonder is not only his staying power but his amazing consistency, which has won the Atlanta Braves outfielder 14 major-league records. Even so, it is his relentless pursuit of the record that has made him at age 39 the single most conspicuous figure in American sports. Last week, 20 seasons older, 30 Ibs. heavier and 2,953 games more experienced than when he hit home run No. 1, Hammerin' Hank drove No. 710 over the left-centerfield wall...
Flesh and Blood. On one level, Aaron's reach for the record is a consummate professional's personal quest for immortality. For years he was underrated, and that still rankles. "I've always read Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roger Maris−then Hank Aaron. I've worked awfully hard to get my name up front. I've waited for my time, and it's just now coming," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman...
...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...
Atlanta Braves' Leftfielder Hank Aaron took time out to go fishing in Mobile, Ala., in the midst of a week during which he slugged his way closer to baseball's grandest alltime record: Babe Ruth's 714 home runs. As the suspense mounted, Aaron denied that pitchers were helping him out in his effort to break the record: "I don't even get balls down the middle in batting practice any more." Aaron, 39, said that even if he does hit No. 715 this year he will play next year. But the 1974 season will...
...fans. They think you're trying to walk him when they've come to see him hit a home run." In Detroit there is a popular new recording, Move Over, Babe: "Move over, Babe, here comes Henry/ And he's swinging mean./ Move over, Babe, Hank's hit another,/ He'll break that...