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The Braves Are Getting Racist Hate Mail About Hank AaronIt's Jackie Robinson Day, a day when baseball takes a moment to recognize the man who broke the sport's color barrier, and the Braves continue to sift through hundreds of letters, many of them littered with racial slurs, bashing Hank Aaron....

How The Media Abuse Hank AaronOn Tuesday, the Braves celebrated the 40th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th career home run, and the mindless debate over who is baseball's "true home run king" sprang idiotically to life. Barry Bonds "has more home runs," Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci wrote, "but true greatness and authenticit...

Is Hank Aaron The True Home Run King? A Very Short DebateNo....

ESPN's Website To Celebrate Hank Aaron With Night Of Cosplay

Forty years ago today, Hank Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career, surpassing Babe Ruth's mark of 714 and setting the all-time career home run record. Even with Barry Bonds having long since surpassed the record, this is one of the great moments in American sports history, more than worth marki...

Sports Figures And Sports Books Are No Longer Notable

Grant Wahl noticed today that the New York Times found no nonfiction sports titles among its 100 notable books of the year ... for the third straight year....

Hank Aaron's 715th Home Run As You've Never Seen It

Hank Aaron put up so many outrageous numbers over the course of his career that it makes 715 feel almost like an afterthought....

Fortunately for Hank Aaron, he and his wife were away when the burglary happened last weekend, and lost just "jewelry and two BMWs." (Both cars have since been recovered. Unfortunately for us, Aaron was not home to meet two burglars with a bat.) h/t to William [AJC]...

Just Because, Here's Babe Ruth's World War I Draft Registration

Historian Michael Beschloss dug this up yesterday, and it's absolutely worth sharing—and not just because today is the anniversary of Ruth's home run record being surpassed by Hank Aaron....