When anyone talks about the legends of the game of baseball, a few names always come to mind.
Ruth
Mays
Cobb
Williams
Gehrig
....and Henry “Hank” Louis Aaron.
Hank Aaron exemplifies everything that you want out of a baseball player. He was obviously one of the best players to ever play the game with a career fWAR of 136.3 to go along with a career .305/.374/.555 line with the familiar 755 home runs and 3771 hits.
He also did so in an environment that was incredibly hostile towards African-Americans and he experienced forms of racism that would have deterred lesser human beings from achieving even the most basic of goals, let alone being one of the best baseball players to ever play the game on a huge public stage.