What You Didn't Know About Hank Aaron

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What You Didn't Know About Hank Aaron

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Back before steroids and the luxury tax, the MLB was one of the most beloved sports leagues in America. It produced some of the biggest superstars in sports history like Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, and Mickey Mantle.
In that discussion of great baseball players, arguably its greatest was Hank Aaron. He spent 21 seasons in the league and his 755 career home runs broke Babe Ruth’s long-standing record that stood for almost 33 years. There is no doubt that Hank Aaron is up there among baseball greats, but what else is there to know about the man nicknamed “Hammer,” or “Hammerin Hank?”
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From Mobile to the Majors | 0:00
Bat does the talking | 1:37
Peer praises | 2:35
Chasing the Babe | 3:39
Hank Aaron vs. the Commissioner | 4:57
April 8, 1974 | 6:29
More than the Home Run King | 8:04
The Civil Rights Movement | 9:47
Post-MLB career | 11:02
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@romancultist6089 3 жыл бұрын

I saw Hank Aaron when I was a kid in the airport at D.C. Me and my father recognized him in the shuttle bus. This was after Barry Bonds broke the HR record. When everyone was exiting the bus, Mr. Aaron and my father got to the door at the same time. Dad told him "We'll let the true home run king go first." Hank smiled at my father and expressed his thanks, then he went about his day. I learned so much from that moment. RIP Hank Aaron. You won't be forgotten.

@duncanmacrae6384 3 жыл бұрын

I met him in 1978, what a wonderful person. No matter what anyone says or does, he IS the home run king. RIP

@jamesowder 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome man, wish I had the chance to watch him back when he played

@newworldhorsdoeuvre 3 жыл бұрын

I've always admired Hank Aaron. What a legend.

@johnkelsey2482 3 жыл бұрын

RIP Henry....You were the G.O.A.T. and will always be....

@jasonmeyer287 3 жыл бұрын

Great human being and greatest baseball player ever

@radish1972 3 жыл бұрын

Ruth is still better.

@samjohnson8859 3 ай бұрын

Mr Aaron will always be a hero and a father figure for the boys who grew up without a father it's not how you start, but how you finish God bless you, sir. Thank you for teaching us how to become men.

@jmd76family 3 жыл бұрын

Truly the heart of the Atlanta Braves! Humble man!

@jimmorrison7102 3 жыл бұрын

He spent hours a day hitting bottle caps with a broomstick as a child. A baseball must have looked like a pumpkin.

@Mr.CliffysWorld 3 жыл бұрын

Jim Morrison

@negrojazzmusician1574 3 жыл бұрын

Hank will always be the hr king to me. He did it the right way.

@MFGC-EmilyRose 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Hank Aaron

@drewhunkins7192 3 жыл бұрын

Muhammad Ali said Aaron was the only athlete he genuinely looked up to.

@BrewBlaster 3 жыл бұрын

I could never imagine the amount of pressure Mr. Aaron had to endure and that makes me respect him even more.

@floridagator1765 3 жыл бұрын

A REAL HERO! IMO, MLB records shouldn't count until the game WAS FULLY integrated. Some of the greatest players of all time were shut out to even participating in MLB because of straight up ignorance. He needs a true biopic. He will be missed.😢

@theblacksheep5226 3 жыл бұрын

Aaron also played for the Milwaukee Brewers for two seasons at the end of his career. After that he entered the Braves front office.

@lanacampbell-moore4549 3 жыл бұрын

Legend👏😊

@brianarbenz1329 3 жыл бұрын

I was thrilled following Hank to the HR record, and grateful that I lived in a time when I could see such history being made. I was shocked at the racism I heard expressed by a few fans. Hate is a horrible thing. Hank was a great person!

@Sceneyour 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they were democrats.

@Jeff-bz6jp Жыл бұрын

@@Sceneyour Get a life ya troll.

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Then there are likes of Bonds and other steroid freaks. They did a whole lot to discredit professional baseball.

@flame-sky7148 3 жыл бұрын

The dude had to face, Gibson, Koufax, Drysdale, Marichal, ............then later had to face Seaver, Jenkins, Perry and Carlton. I know Cobb, Ruth and Hornsby were great too, but they didn't have to face that.

@arickjohnson9982 3 жыл бұрын

THE 🐐

@richarddenny5340 Жыл бұрын

to my mind, Aaron was the best all around player of all time.power, speed, defense etc. plus durability. great player

@danor6812 3 жыл бұрын

The Boston Braves were a minor league team. Which moved to Milwaukee, and became a pro team, the Milwaukee Braves. Which moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta. Before he broke Babe Ruth's record. He left Atlanta and played again in Milwaukee for the Brewers. When he got real close to breaking the record, they moved him back to Atlanta to break it. Which got the Brewers a lot of money.. But when he was playing in Milwaukee. I not only got to see him play. I was 12 years old, and got to see Hank Arron hit his last Grand Slam to win the game. Bottom of the 9th, down by 2, bases loaded. Here comes Hank Arron. 3 balls, 1 strike. And whack, it was gone. At the end of the game nobody left. We all chanted and clapped for Arron. After about 5-6 minutes he came out of the dugout. Holding his pants up and waves his hat in the air. The stadium went nuts. Good memories.

@jameswalton3930 Жыл бұрын

The Boston Braves was not a minor league team; it was the same team that played in the National League before they moved to Milwaukee then to Atlanta. Also Mr.Aaron left the Braves after he broke Ruth's record; then he finished off in the city he started his career in, Milwaukee. I believe the great Warren Spahn and hofer Eddie Matthews are the only 2 player to have played in all 3 cities with the Braves.

@user-td4zp4gq2p 5 ай бұрын

Hammerin Hank Aaron will always be my generations hero and Home run king.

@ShadowDragonGT 3 жыл бұрын

Never watch baseball but everyone knows hank

@pauldiaco3817 Жыл бұрын

My first hero as a child. And he still is.

@dustineggers448 3 жыл бұрын

Mobile AL an proud

@JP-yw4wx 3 жыл бұрын

I watched the record breaking game. Awesome Awesome Awesome. And he wasn't taking any enhancements. Figure that. 🙌

@CorporalDeepDick 3 жыл бұрын

I never heard of this man until now. I've only heard about Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds. I wonder how Chris Bell didn't mention Hank in his documentary "Bigger, stronger, faster"?

@luishumbertovega3900 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe because he did nothing deliberately to get bigger, stronger nor faster. 6'0" and 180 lbs when he arrived at the bigs in 1954 and 6'0", 180 when he retired in 1976, just kept hitting that ball for 23 seasons and playing quality baseball as an all around player with the ability to field, throw, run, hit for average and hit for power. Obviously you were not around in 1974 when Hank was news, and I mean news, not just sports news, almost everyday during the MLB season. If you substract his 755 HR from his 3,771 hits there are still more than 3,000 hits.

@mikestencel4480 3 жыл бұрын

Great man. A real icon

@sherryford2086 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P COUSIN HANK

@Robert-qm5so 5 ай бұрын

Henry Aaron the true homerun king 👑

@ManuelGuzman067 3 жыл бұрын

Hank aaron was the best when it came down to ⚾.top player in Mlb. Rip Legends never Die

@Sceneyour 2 жыл бұрын

He's the best player when it comes down to being the best player?!

@iess2006 3 жыл бұрын

Adversity makes warriors, leaders and legends. Henry Aaron, a great American and hero worthy of emulation.

@monetti22 3 жыл бұрын

Great video

@minxcards3779 3 жыл бұрын

Rest in POWER 😇

@shipofthesun 3 жыл бұрын

And you get it wrong in the first sentence. Mr. Aaron is the greatest player in history. You also missed that he was the MVP in the 1957 World Series.

@drewhunkins7192 3 жыл бұрын

If Aaron would have played in the giant media market of NYC there would have been a famous folk song written about him. He had a better career than Mantle, better than DiMaggio. If you deduct all of Aaron's HRs he still finished with over 3,000 hits, astonishing. He finished his long career with a plus .300 career batting average, he holds the all-time record for RBIs.

@ddcs0s 3 жыл бұрын

Atlanta is the third biggest market in the US and there are songs about Hank

@drewhunkins7192 3 жыл бұрын

@@ddcs0s Milwaukee's the smallest baseball market in the U.S. Also, I don't believe Atl was as big when he was there, I think it's grown since.

@Jeff-bz6jp Жыл бұрын

@@ddcs0s For a random asshole, you're actually a pretty good dude. I can tell. You speak facts, and I appreciate that.👍

@ddcs0s Жыл бұрын

@@Jeff-bz6jp we're all just random assholes on the internet and I think people get so upset arguing online that they forget that most of these conversations really aren't important enough to justify getting upset ... I'm a random asshole just like everyone else I'm probably not gonna lose any sleep over anything anyone says on KZfaq and you shouldn't either

@dave4138 Жыл бұрын

Hank Aaron has a career 305 avg with almost 4k hits and more walks than strikeouts. He is probably right behind Ruth IMO but not many people put him there because he is amongst the most underrated players of all time.

@ponzo1967 9 ай бұрын

Never hit 50 in a season he was simply the most consistent over his career

@luishumbertovega3900 Ай бұрын

While playing his only season in the Puerto Rico Winter Ball League, Hank and his first wife, Barbara, became parents to daughter Gaile. In his autobiographical book I Had A Hammer, written with Lonie Smith, Hank told an amusing incident in which a cow ate Gaile's diapers that were hanging from a wire to dry in their Caguas town backyard. 🐄😊

@DiabloBiscuit 3 жыл бұрын

Aaron still has the record. Barry cheated there his record doesn't count.

@jimmorrison7102 3 жыл бұрын

Barry couldn’t fill Henry’s shoes on or off the field.

@mattbnez 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, his entire career counts as nothing. Goes for all of the cheaters.

@lijo4518 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree‼️

@dogsbark5750 3 жыл бұрын

Aaron couldn't hit as far as Ruths super natural homeruns, or get a homerun as often as Ruth. But he was a far far better player, athlete, and man. While Ruth skipped practice, got benched, didn't know his own teammates, and showed up drunk; Hammering Hank was a rock to his team, gave it his all, and did it with nothing but hard work. Thats what led to him breaking Ruths record and being a model American of true inspiration.

@eddiefirst9410 3 жыл бұрын

Still today the greatest player!

@mudufudh6044 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@williamaldridge2020 3 жыл бұрын

I love the music around 6:03

@ddcs0s 3 жыл бұрын

Hammer was the greatest baseball player ever if you were asked to create a all time team and not start with a pitcher your first pick has to be Aaron because he was easily a top 5 hitter no matter how you look at it and he was a great defensive player

@your_royal_highness Жыл бұрын

Henry was the last MLB player to have also played in the Negro Leagues

@thehairiestloverofall6023 3 жыл бұрын

All time HR Leader- no roids

@jeremyfiori3006 3 жыл бұрын

Hammering Hank What else can I say Man's so good...think about Without him We wouldn't have MC Hammer

@crackerjack9320 3 жыл бұрын

The true HR King! And way better defensively than bonds.

@stingersplashentertainment3410 3 жыл бұрын

It’s Aaron’s record people

@drewfava6455 3 жыл бұрын

They need to make a good movie on him.

@paulekezie465 3 жыл бұрын

In the offseason of 1973 he received over 900,000 hate mail just because he was about to break Ruth's HR record

@Doones51 5 ай бұрын

It's really sad that many Americans are racists, thinking they are better than others. Aaron, to his credit, chose to rise above this idiocy and became the home run king. People today can still learn a lot from him about becoming a great man despite the hate hurled at him.

@Sceneyour 2 жыл бұрын

Hank is still the real homerun king. Barry had a second prime years after his first ended. End of that BS story.

@johnschuh8616 3 ай бұрын

Anyone who went after a man as calm and soft-spoken as Henry Aaron was truly as evi as any religious zealot. No wonder he and Stan Musial got along so well, They were both cut from the same pattern.

@BrewBlaster 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought Willie Mays was better, but not by much.

@flame-sky7148 3 жыл бұрын

Yea, you can make a strong case for that. I mean Willie did basically miss two years because of military service (52-53), and he would have been the 2nd HR King. Aaron's career was uninterrupted.

@totalfloat 3 жыл бұрын

Did he take the shot in the arm?

@cotton123ful 3 жыл бұрын

Yes and two days later hes gone.

@stantyner2394 3 жыл бұрын

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🐐

@liamday6046 2 жыл бұрын

755 is real???

@enriquejimenez8322 Жыл бұрын

No drug's who knows

@luishumbertovega3900 3 жыл бұрын

Nothing new to me.

@johnsavage6628 2 жыл бұрын

Aaron never beat the Babe's record. The Babe achieved his record with almost half as many times to bat than Aaron. Times to bat is part of the record!

@Jeff-bz6jp Жыл бұрын

Whatever.

@Doones51 5 ай бұрын

No it's not. It's simple, he hit more home runs than Ruth because he was a better athlete. The fact he played much longer than Ruth is a testament to his conditioning and consistency. Ruth abused himself too much to last very long. Aaron is the Home Run KIng. He was great for far longer than Ruth.

@Sceneyour 2 жыл бұрын

Only a Democrat would get mad at Hank beating Babe and send death threats.

@Jeff-bz6jp Жыл бұрын

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