The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (82 page)

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

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Booker T. Washington
: University of South Alabama Archives

Babe Ruth
: Erik Overbey Collection, University of South Alabama Archives

Davis Avenue pool hall
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Alabama Drydock entrance gate
: Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Corporation Collection, University of South Alabama Archives

In Jacksonville team uniform, 1953
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At Lulu Mae Gibson’s boarding house
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With Bill Bruton, Jim Pendleton, Charlie White
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With Eddie Mathews and Joe Adcock
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Jackie Robinson
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At spring training, 1957
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With Ted Williams
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At bat
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Warren Spahn
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At home with Barbara and children
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With Eddie Mathews, 1965
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In Atlanta
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With Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente
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With home run 500 trophy
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Home run 703
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With the Rev. Jesse Jackson
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Peanuts
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United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

With Billye and Governor Jimmy Carter
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Breaking Ruth’s record
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With his brother, Tommie
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At bat
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With Willie Mays
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With Billye at the Hall of Fame
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With his mother and father: Azalea City News
Collection, University of South Alabama Archives

With President Bill Clinton
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With Barry Bonds
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Bonds 756
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Henry Aaron
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Henry Aaron
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com and
ESPN the Magazine
. He is the author of
Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
, and
Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
, which was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research Seymour Medal. He has worked at the
Oakland Tribune
, the
Boston Herald
, and the
Washington Post
. He lives in western Massachusetts.

Copyright © 2010 by Howard Bryant
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Pantheon Books and colophon are
registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission
to reprint previously published material:

Ig Publishing Inc.: Excerpts from
Baseball Has Done It
by Jackie Robinson, copyright © 1964 by Jackie Robinson. Reprinted by permission of Ig Publishing Inc.

The Saturday Evening Post:
Excerpt from “Born to Play Ball” by Furman Bisher
(The Saturday Evening Post
magazine, August 25, 1956), copyright © 1956 by Saturday Evening Post Society. Reprinted by permission of
The Saturday Evening Post
.

The Washington Post:
Excerpt from “Hank Aaron Ties Ruth Homer Mark after 77 Games”
(The Washington Post
, July 11, 1957), copyright © 1957 by
The Washington Post
. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of PARS International Corp., on behalf of
The Washington Post
and protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of the material without express written permission is prohibited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bryant, Howard, [date]
The last hero : a life of Henry Aaron / Howard Bryant.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37924-5
1. Aaron, Hank, 1934– 2. African American baseball players—Biography.
3. Baseball players—United States—Biography.
4. Baseball—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.
GV
865.
A
25
B
79 2010
796.357092—dc22
[B]
2009040573

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