Hank Aaron has reportedly died

[nsacpi]

 

[clvclv]

Petition to retire #44...

http://chng.it/jfqFhVTqrm

 

[zbhargrove]

Everyone thinks about the home runs first with Hank, but he was an all around great player. Take away the 755 home runs and he still had 3,000 hits.

Stole 240 bases too

 

[50PoundHead]

Stole 240 bases too

Yes, I'm one of the "ye olde classic old-timers club," but it's really a shame in some (but not all) ways that there wasn't greater coverage in the era of Aaron, Mays, Mantle, Williams, and others. The game has changed a lot, but I'm convinced these guys would have flourished in any era. Henry Aaron used to glide on the field. I'm hard pressed to find a comparable player in today's game in terms of style, because Aaron's game was so buttoned-down that his absolute greatness flew below the radar. He made an extremely difficult game look easy and he'd be the first to contend that baseball isn't easy.