Product ReviewsHank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America by Tom Stanton (2005, Trade Paperback)

Great book a must have for baseball lovers out there.

I love baseball and knowing how years ago they sacrificed to be able to play the game they so much loved. I found on the road a pit bull almost got hit by a car and picked him up and tried to find his people but not to be found so after 3 weeks guess what he is mine. I named this gentle calmest loving dog Hank Aaron after the great player in the 70's.
I love this book I read it to my pitty while his head lays in my lap. How much better could that be.
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The long chase, seen three decades later

One of the great ironies of Barry Bonds' pursuit of Henry Aaron is that today's commentators say Bonds lacks the stature -- steroids and his personality -- to challenge the great Henry Aaron. But in reading Tom Stanton's book on Aaron and his ordeal, one realizes that it was not so long ago...in my lifetime...that Henry Aaron was chasing Babe Ruth. Astonishingly, Aaron was not seen as having the stature to crack the Babe's home run total. Much of the animosity was race-based, but much of it also seemed to have been the continuing worship of Ruth in the minds of the fans and the front offices of baseball. Roger Maris suffered more from this comparison, which is unfair and odious, but Aaron labored under the double burden of race and Ruth. The determination, quality, and dignity he showed in refusing to back down in the face of hard pitches, harder sportswriters, and harsher fans, should be an example to today's stars, and a realization that the more things change...the more they do stay the same.

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