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**[[image:alabama.gif width="183" height="251"]]Henry Aaron[[image:aaron.jpg width="131" height="167" align="right" caption="Hank Aaron"]]**
By: Brandon Bone, Maryon Curtis, Abel Knight, Holden, Christopher, and Timothy Martin Henry Aaron was born Febuary 5,1934 and was a famous baseball player who played in major league baseball. His home town was Mobile,Alabama. He played for Indaipolis Clowns.His first major league team was Millwaukee Braves. He had his rookie season in 1954. He worked to get blackberries and selled them to his neighbors for 5$ or more. Hank Aaron is Major League Baseball's all-time leading career home run hitter with 755 over a 23-year career. Not only did he set baseball records, but he did it while under the racial criticism of people from all over the country. He received death threats on a regular basis and was often booed from the stands of his own team. Never once did he let that slow him down, although he sometimes feared for the well-being of himself and his family   http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=h_aaron

Hank Aaron started his baseball career when he was 15 years old. When he got older he broke his ankle sliding into 3rd base. He had to sit out the rest of the season. When his ankle got better he asked his brother to throw him some change ups. Piches that are diffrent from others some were curveballs,sliders,knuckle, and some of the balls did not strike him out.

His record of home runs were 755.He had pased Baby Ruth's recored. 6 years after his record he was inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame. After retiring as a player, Hank Aaron became the senior vice president and assistant to president of the Atlanta Braves.