Hank Aaron

A detailed Summary of Hank Aaron

"Hank" Henry Aaron is an African-American from Mobile, Alabama. He was born in a part of the town called "Down by the Bay," a poor black area of the town. Soon after he was born he moved to a part of the town called "Toulminville" where he lived most of his childhood years (Henry Aaron #1).

When he was a child and late teenager, he had many heroes. Many of them were Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, and Stan Musial, all three of them were baseball players. His like for Jackie Robinson natural sine he was the first black man to play on a major league baseball team (Henry Aaron #1).

His first baseball team was for the Toulminville Grammar School in the Louisiana Rec League, it was a Negro league. He was by far the best player on the team, but he had a different way of hitting. He broke one of the rules of hitting; he hit cross-handed. That means that he hit with his left hand over his right when normally he should hit with his right over his left. That should have cut his hitting power down to basically nothing, and it would have been vary easy to break a wrist. He still hit the ball hard enough to hit over a .700 (that's hitting 70% of the time) all the way through grammar school and all through high school. H

In 1963 rumors started floating that the Braves would move out of Milwaukee and into Atlanta. The spring of 1964 Atlanta announced the plans to build a stadium since they already had a commitment from a major league team. With the attendance figures in Milwaukee falling fans and baseball official's knew it would not be long before the Braves would be moving to Atlanta . But in the year ahead the attendance figures in Milwaukee actually grew in an effort to keep the Braves there. At the end of 1964 season the Braves applied for permission to move from the league offices. It would have been approved except Milwaukee got a court order for the Braves to honor their contract. So at the end of the 1965 season the Braves would be leaving and going to Milwaukee (Henry Aaron Prt. #2 pg. # 2).

ce that he would have had more power and hit a lot better. Before he turned fifteen he was playing on a Semi-pro team as there short stop (Henry Aaron #2).

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Homerun Number 715 came four days after number 714, April 8, 1971, at 9:07 PM in front of the largest crowd ever at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. Millions more were watching at home on TV. The weather was chilly. At bottom of the fourth inning, the Dodgers were leading 3-1, a 1-0 count on Aaron. Darrell Evans was on first base, Al Downing threw a fastb

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