Hank Aaron
Retired Major League Baseball player whose career lasted 23 seasons from 1954 to 1976 with the Braves organization in the National League.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution.
In the decades to come, the memory of the scene might blur. But the memory of the sound will remain with everyone who was here. Not the sound of the cheers, or the sound of Henry Aaron saying "I'm thankful to God it's all over," but the sound of Henry Aaron's bat when it hit the baseball tonight... At home plate, surrounded by an ovation that came down around him as if it were a waterfall of appreciation, he was met by his teammates who attempted to lift him onto their shoulders. But he slipped off into the arms of his father Herbert Sr., and his mother Estella, who had hurried out of the special box for the Aaron family near the Braves' dugout. "I never knew," Aaron would say later," that my mother could hug so tight."
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
I don't want them to forget Ruth; I just want them to remember me.
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