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Vote: | Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture? |
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Vote: | Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. |
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Vote: | Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution. |
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Vote: | I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth. |
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Vote: | I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice. |
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Vote: | I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me! |
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Vote: | I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. |
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Vote: | I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. |
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Vote: | I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. |
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Vote: | I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him. |
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Vote: | It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. |
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Vote: | Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. |
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Vote: | My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. |
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Vote: | On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. |
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Vote: | Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time. |
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Vote: | The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. |
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Vote: | The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. |
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Vote: | You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. |
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Vote: | You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field. |
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Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama), is an American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Aaron is best known for setting the record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 by Babe Ruth. Aaron also holds the career marks for RBI (2,297), extra base hits (1,477) and total bases (6,856). He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957, one Most Valuable Player in 1957, three Gold Glove Awards and made 25 All-Star appearances.
Pre-professional Career Henry Louis Aaron was born February 5, 1934, in a part of Mobile, Alabama called Down The Bay. It was a poor area of town populated mostly by minorities. His family later moved to a better part of Mobile called Toulminville, where he was brought up and attended school. In Central High School, Aaron played shortstop and third base and was an outstanding hitter though he batted cross-handed. His team won the Negro High School Championship two years running. In high school,he also excelled in football.
Aaron's last two years of high school were spent at Josephine Allen Institute, a private high school. Aaron was so proficient a ballplayer at this young age that before his fifteenth birthday he was playing on a semi-pro team, the Pritchett Athletics, as their shortstop and third baseman. He made $3 a game. He tried out for the Dodgers but did not get to show his abilities to the scouts there. He then started playing with the semi-pro Mobile Black Bears for $10 a game.
His mother wanted Aaron to attend college in Florida. But with the promise to finish high school, on November 20, 1951 he was signed by scout Ed Scott to play for the Negro American League champion Indianapolis Clowns after the Black Bears played an exhibition against the Clowns the previous year. Aaron helped lead the Clowns to victory in the 1952 Negro League World Series.
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