Hank Aaron
Author: Peter Golenbock
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 015205250X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.
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Home Run
Author: Hank Aaron
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781892129055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The baseball legend and his admirers describe his career, from his seasons with the Negro Leagues through his Major League days
Henry Aaron's Dream
Author: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0763632244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A picture book biography of African-American baseball player Hank Aaron.
The Picture Story of Hank Aaron
Author: Bernice Elizabeth Young
Publisher: Julian Messner
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780671326722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of the baseball slugger who in twenty major league seasons has hit 713 home runs--one less than Babe Ruth's career record.
I Had a Hammer
Author: Hank Aaron
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-03-17
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0061873373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Classic New York Times Bestseller The man who shattered Babe Ruth's lifetime home run record, Henry "Hammering Hank" Aaron left his indelible mark on professional baseball and the world. But the world also left its mark on him. I Had a Hammer is much more than the intimate autobiography of one of the greatest names in pro sports—it is a fascinating social history of twentieth-century America. With courage and candor, Aaron recalls his struggles and triumphs in an atmosphere of virulent racism. He relives the breathtaking moment when, in the heat of hatred and controversy, he hit his 715th home run to break Ruth's cherished record—an accomplishment for which Aaron received more than 900,000 letters, many of them vicious and racially charged. And his story continues through the remainder of his milestone-setting, barrier-smashing career as a player and, later, Atlanta Braves executive—offering an eye-opening and unforgettable portrait of an incomparable athlete, his sport, his epoch, and his world.
Hank Aaron
Author: Charlie Vascellaro
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2005-03-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313330018
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The Last Hero
Author: Howard Bryant
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0307279928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron—one of baseball's immortal figures—is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. “Beautifully written and culturally important.” —The Washington Post “The epic baseball tale of the second half of the 20th century.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution After his retirement in 1976, Aaron’s reputation only grew in magnitude. But his influence extended beyond statistics. Based on meticulous research and extensive interviews The Last Hero reveals how Aaron navigated the upheavals of his time—fighting against racism while at the same time benefiting from racial progress—and how he achieved his goal of continuing Jackie Robinson’s mission to obtain full equality for African Americans, both in baseball and society, while he lived uncomfortably in the public eye.
Swinging for the Fences
Author: Mike Leonetti
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2013-04-02
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1452126704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first book in a series about fictional encounters between children and their sports heroes features home-run legend Hank Aaron. In this gorgeously illustrated picture book, Mark, a young boy who idolizes Aaron, meets his hero and learns that there's more to being a great baseball player than hitting the ball out of the park.
A Summer Up North
Author: Jerry Poling
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2002-10-28
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0299181839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →June 12, 1952—only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city’s Class C minor league baseball team. Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surrounded a newly raised bronze statue of a young "Hank" Aaron at bat. "I had goosebumps," he said later. "A lot of things happened to me in my twenty-three years as a ballplayer, but nothing touched me more than that day in Eau Claire." For the people of Eau Claire, Aaron’s summer two years before his Major League debut with the Milwaukee Braves symbolizes a magical time, when baseball fans in a small city in northern Wisconsin could live a part of the dream.
Me and Hank
Author: Sandy Tolan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-06-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0684871319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1965, when Sandy Tolan was nine, his hero left town. Unlike other Milwaukee Braves fans, Sandy continued to follow Hank Aaron and his teammates, even though they were now seven hundred miles south in Atlanta. In 1973, as Aaron closed in on Babe Ruth's career home run mark, the black slugger received racist hate mail by the ton. Shocked, Sandy wrote his hero a letter of support. A few weeks later, Aaron responded. Dear Sandy, Aaron wrote. Your letter of support and encouragement meant much more to me than I can adequately express in words. Twenty-five years later, Tolan embarked on a journey to meet his oldhero and to understand, through family, teammates, and civil rights leaders, a legacy of courage and dignity that resonates far beyond the playing field. Me and Hank explores the landscape between a hero's aspirations and the reality of his struggle; between a young fan's wishes and their delivery, a generation later, to a middle-aged man; and between the starkly different ways blacks and whites experience and remember the same events.
