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🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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To close out 2021, we're replaying our 10 best episodes of the year. At #3 we have 'Reflections On Henry Aaron.' Five baseball writers from The Athletic joined us shortly after Aaron passed away to share their memories of him as a player and a human being, and to reflect on how he was shaped by -- and helped shape -- American history.
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0:46.0 | Okay, there are just three days left in 2021 and just three days left in our countdown of the best episodes of the lead this year. |
0:57.0 | Today for our third episode, we're going all the way back to January of this year when the sport of baseball and the world lost an icon. |
1:06.0 | A man who truly transcended his sport. Here it is. |
1:18.0 | Baseball has lost another legend. Hall of Famer Henry Hank Aaron has died at the age of 86. |
1:26.0 | Growing up in Mobile, Alabama during the Great Depression as a young boy, the American icon taught himself how to play baseball. |
1:33.0 | He had bottle caps with sticks and made that side of tree limbs. |
1:38.0 | Story 23 year career included breaking Babe Ruth's all time home run record, ball enduring racism and death threats. |
1:45.0 | Today reflections on the life and legacy of Henry Aaron who passed away last Friday. |
1:51.0 | I'm Jason Stark and I covered baseball for the athletic and I could talk about the dignity and the class of Hank Aaron, the man that you've been being for an hour easily. |
2:12.0 | I'm a numbers guy and so let me tell you what I did after Hank Aaron died, I navigated over to his page on baseball reference. |
2:21.0 | And I don't know, I just beheld the majesty of this man's career and it literally gave me goosebumps. |
2:33.0 | The more I looked, the more I realized he was beyond great, he was at some other level. He wound up with nearly 3800 hits and that's a lot of freaking hits. |
2:46.0 | It's a thousand more hits than Chipper Jones. It's 2000 more hits than Mark McGuire. It's more hits than Johnny Bench and Hank Greenberg got combined and they're both in the Hall of Fame. |
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