What You Didn't Know About Hank Aaron

[@romancultist6089]

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]

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

[@jamesowder]

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

[@newworldhorsdoeuvre]

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

[@samjohnson8859]

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.

[@johnkelsey2482]

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

[@richarddenny5340]

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

[@jasonmeyer287]

Great human being and greatest baseball player ever

[@radish1972]

Ruth is still better.

[@jmd76family]

Truly the heart of the Atlanta Braves! Humble man!

[@jimmorrison7102]

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

[@Mr.CliffysWorld]

Jim Morrison

[@BrewBlaster]

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

[@MFGC-EmilyRose]

R.I.P. Hank Aaron

[@theblacksheep5226]

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

[@drewhunkins7192]

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

[@brianarbenz1329]

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]

I'm sure they were democrats.

[@Jeff-bz6jp]

@@Sceneyour Get a life ya troll.

[@johnschuh8616]

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

[@ponzo1967]

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

[@Robert-qm5so]

Henry Aaron the true homerun king 👑

[@floridagator1765]

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.😢

[@MichaelLabriola-f8s]

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

[@pauldiaco3817]

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

[@flame-sky7148]

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]

THE 🐐

[@lanacampbell-moore4549]

Legend👏😊

[@danor6812]

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.

[@Jamestown-y9j]

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.

[@dogsbark5750]

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.

[@iess2006]

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

[@mikestencel4480]

Great man. A real icon

[@monetti22]

Great video

[@JPee-x4you]

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

[@drewhunkins7192]

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]

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

[@drewhunkins7192]

@@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]

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

[@ddcs0s]

@@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 KZbin and you shouldn't either

[@dustineggers448]

Mobile AL an proud

[@DiabloBiscuit]

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

[@jimmorrison7102]

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

[@mattbnez]

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

[@lijo4518]

Totally agree‼️

[@ManuelGuzman067]

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

[@Sceneyour]

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

[@ShadowDragonGT]

Never watch baseball but everyone knows hank

[@dave4138]

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.

[@shipofthesun]

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.

[@your_royal_highness]

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

[@williamaldridge2020]

I love the music around 6:03

[@minxcards3779]

Rest in POWER 😇

[@luishumbertovega3900]

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. 🐄😊

[@eddiefirst9410]

Still today the greatest player!

[@sherryford2086]

R.I.P COUSIN HANK

[@ddcs0s]

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

[@Sceneyour]

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

[@Beenablunt]

Nice

[@stingersplashentertainment3410]

It’s Aaron’s record people

[@jeremyfiori3006]

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

[@crackerjack9320]

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

[@thehairiestloverofall6023]

All time HR Leader- no roids

[@johnschuh8616]

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.

[@paulekezie465]

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

[@Doones51]

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.

[@drewfava6455]

They need to make a good movie on him.

[@stantyner2394]

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🐐

[@BrewBlaster]

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

[@flame-sky7148]

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]

Did he take the shot in the arm?

[@cotton123ful]

Yes and two days later hes gone.

[@liamday6046]

755 is real???

[@luishumbertovega3900]

Nothing new to me.

[@enriquejimenez8322]

No drug's who knows

[@johnsavage6628]

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]

Whatever.

[@Doones51]

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]

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

[@Jeff-bz6jp]

🖕🖕Phillips🗣