Hank Aaron just died, at age 86. Incredibly enough, I've always thought he's somewhat overlooked/underrated; he never seems to come up in any "best ever" conversations. Meanwhile, much is made of him hitting 755 home runs - rightfully so, of course - but if you removed every single one, he'd still have 3,000 hits. Incredible. Also, I’ve lived on this planet for a while now and not once have I heard anyone say a bad word about the man.
Here's a series of Peanuts strips as he chased Ruth's record and the shit he went through.
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