The Washington Post, April 22nd, 1995
America has never been quite sure how to think about Henry Aaron. As the man who broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record, he received equal amounts of adulation and hatred. He was never the man many fans wanted to break Ruth's record -- if anyone, that would have been Mickey Mantle, a Yankee and, more important, a white man. If it had to be a black man, it should at least have been affable Willie Mays, whose flashing smile blinded many to the game's -- and society's -- racism. Aaron was an enigmatic, almost detached, physically unimposing man who had perhaps the quickest wrists and greatest...
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