Henry Louis Aaron
Hank Aaron was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982 as a Player by the BBWAA receiving 97.8 percent of the vote that year. Hank was a Rightfielder and First Baseman who played in the majors for 23 years playing in 3,298 games. He batted 12,364 times from the right side with 3,771 hits, 755 home runs, 2,297 RBIs, and recorded a career batting average of .305. He was born on February 5, 1934 in Mobile, AL. His nickname is "Hammer, Hammerin' Hank or Bad Henry."
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The greatest home run hitter ever. That's how I'll remember him. I got a chance to see him play late in his career at Fenway for the Brewers. Jim Rice played left field that day, and Hank hit a ball to the warning track (probably 300 feet from home plate). Jim, who wasn't the greatest fielder, misplayed it and it dropped harmlessly onto the dirt. Hank easily made it to second for a double which I was sure was going to be an error, but no, it was a double. I still was relatively new to this game I came to love, and that was my first lesson that mental errors aren't considered errors in the boxscore. RIP Hank!