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Daily Archives: January 23, 2021

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NY Times: A Final Interview With Hank Aaron: ‘I Recognized That I Had a Gift’

ArticlesBy ejuniperJanuary 23, 2021

I was born in Atlanta in 1960, and when the Braves moved to town from Milwaukee after the 1965 season, Hank Aaron became my all-seasons hero. That didn’t seem unusual in my family, because my New Jersey-bred mother and Pennsylvania-raised father considered themselves civil rights foot soldiers. But it was anathema to my white classmates.…

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