Hank Aaron

Also known as Henry Louis Aaron, Henry "Hank" L. Aaron, Henry Aaron, Hammerin' Hank Aaron, Hammerin' Hank

American baseball player (1934–2021)

OverviewAI-generated

Hank Aaron was an American baseball player who served as an outfielder. His professional career began on April 13, 1954, and concluded on October 3, 1976. Born on February 5, 1934, he passed away on January 22, 2021. Standing 183 centimeters tall, he represented the United States in his sport.

Aaron is also recognized as an author with twelve recorded works. These include *I had a hammer*, *Comeback Season*, *Aaron*, *r.f.*, and *Bad Henry*, the latter written in collaboration with Stan Baldwin and Jerry Jenkins. He has been referenced by 1,932 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 1934
Died: 2021
Works: 12

Top works

I had a hammer
Comeback Season
Aaron, r.f.
Bad Henry by Stan Baldwin with Jerry Jenkins and in Collaboration with Hank Aaron
Bad Henry

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1900-11-14
Active to: 1990-12-02

20th centuryamericanamerican composerclassicalcomposercontemporary classical

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 28
Total plays: 52

via Last.fm · Hank Aaron

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 27,586x
The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,077x
MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,645x
Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 15,073x
Generative adversarial networks
· 2020 · cited 13,895x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

“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.”
“I like those lefties, but when you're hitting, all pitchers look alike. I don't care too much who's throwing or what he throws. When my timing is off, I have trouble; when it ain't, I don't.”
“Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.”
“[W]hen I was a little boy, my daddy said to me, "Henry, never hurry unless you have to." I've remembered that all my life and here I am in the major leagues.”
“He was my favorite hitter. He could do almost anything he wanted to do at bat. He was a scientific hitter. I've seen him deliberately go for the home run late in a game and get it. Even if it meant pulling an outside pitch, he'd pull because he'd made up his mind to do it. Another thing I liked about him was the power he generated when he hit the ball between the infielders. This is a sure sign of a great hitter.”
“Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Sports profile

Sport: Baseball
Team: _Deceased Baseball
Position: Outfielder
Nationality: United States

via TheSportsDB

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. Considered one of the greatest baseball players in history, he spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL). At the time of his retirement, Aaron held most of the game's key career power-hitting records. He broke the long-standing MLB record for career home runs held by Babe Ruth and remained the career leader for 33 years, until Barry Bonds surpassed his famous total of 755 in 2007. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973 and is one of only two players (the other being Alex Rodriguez) to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least 15 times.

Aaron holds the MLB records for the most career runs batted in (RBIs) (2,297), extra base hits (1,477), and total bases (6,856). He is also third all-time for career hits (3,771) and fifth in runs scored (2,174). Aaron is one of only four players to have at least 17 seasons with 150 or more hits. His ability as a hitter can be illustrated by his still having over 3,000 hits even without counting any of his home runs. Aaron was an NL All-Star for 20 seasons and an AL All-Star for one season, and he holds the record for the most All-Star selections (25), while sharing the record for most All-Star Games played (24) with Willie Mays and Stan Musial. Aaron was a three-time Gold Glove winner, and in 1957, he won the NL Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award when the Milwaukee Braves won the World Series.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hank Aaron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.