Reflections On Henry "Hank" Aaron
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
One of the greatest baseball players of all time, and a civil rights icon, passed away last Friday at age 86. Today, five writers from The Athletic who knew Henry Aaron, grew up idolizing him, and drew inspiration from him join us to reflect on his incredible life and legacy.
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| 0:34.4 | Baseball has lost another legend. |
| 0:37.0 | Hall of Famer Henry Hank Aaron has died at the age of 86. |
| 0:41.3 | Growing up in Mobile, Alabama during the Great Depression, as a young boy, the American |
| 0:46.2 | icon taught himself how to play baseball. |
| 0:48.7 | He hit bottle caps with sticks and made bats out of tree limbs. |
| 0:53.0 | Story 23 year career included breaking bay breuths all time, home run record, ballenduring |
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| 1:00.7 | Today, reflections on the life and legacy of Henry Aaron, who passed away last Friday. |
| 1:07.2 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm under Skelta. |
| 1:09.8 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:11.4 | It's Friday, January 29th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm Jason Stark and I cover baseball for the Athletic. |
| 1:26.6 | And I could talk about the dignity and the class of Hank Aaron, the man that you've been |
| 1:32.5 | being for an hour easily. |
| 1:35.5 | But I'm a numbers guy. |
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