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Hank Aaron

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2015 Portrait of a Nation Prize Recipient“Hammering” Hank Aaron is one of the greatest baseball players in major league history. He was scouted at sixteen and played in the Negro leagues before signing with the Milwaukee (later Atlanta) Braves, for whom he debuted in 1954. A perennial All-Star and the league MVP in 1957, Aaron was remarkably consistent: in a twenty-three-year major-league career he never hit more than fifty homers in a season but always ranked near the top of the hitting statistics. A compact six-footer, Aaron generated tremendous bat speed with his extraordinary reflexes. In 1974 he broke Babe Ruth’s record of 714 career home runs; Aaron’s chase of Ruth’s record was widely celebrated as a sign of racial progress in the New South. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1982, Aaron had an estimable post-baseball career doing charitable and civic work in Atlanta and Milwaukee.Hank Aaron, apodado “el Martillo”, es uno de los jugadores más importantes en la historia de las grandes ligas de béisbol. Fue reclutado a los dieciséis años y jugó en las ligas afroamericanas antes de firmar contrato con los Bravos de Milwaukee (luego de Atlanta), equipo con el cual debutó en 1954. Perenne Jugador Estrella y nombrado Jugador Más Valioso de la liga en 1957, Aaron fue notablemente constante: en su carrera de veintitrés años en las grandes ligas, nunca bateó más de cincuenta jonrones en una temporada, pero siempre ocupó las posiciones más altas en las estadísticas de bateo. De constitución compacta...
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Oil On Canvas
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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Delta Airlines, Inc.; 2015 Portrait of a Nation Prize Recipient
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