My favorite Hank Aaron anecdote came from former Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president relaying that he taught the Braves icon how to ski, taking Aaron to Colorado in 1999. The Home Run King was 65, the old dog learning a new trick.
Aaron’s exploits on the baseball field were the stuff of legends — the 755 home runs, and illustrating that power alone didn’t define his game, the realization that if you took away that record-setting number of blasts, he’d still have over 3,000 career hits. He was front and center in the Civil Rights movement, keeping company with Martin Luther King Jr.