Henry Aaron - By Moses

Henry Aaron
By Moses

Henry Aaron may very well have been the greatest batsman to have played the game.
Aaron posted fifteen seasons of 30+Homeruns/Year. He also batted .300+ fourteen times in his career.
Aaron finished his career with the most lifetime home-runs with 755 and had 3771 lifetime hits, with a .305 lifetime batting average.
What made Aaron so special was that he was truly consistent over the years he played. From 1957–1973 he failed to hit 30+ home-runs only twice.
Hank Aaron started his career with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro-Leagues and fared well as a prospective shortstop. He was signed by the Milwaukee Braves on this premise. While in the Braves chain Aaron was moved to his post in right field which he served for 23 years. In his minor league days, starting in 1952, Aaron played alongside Wes Covington whom he claimed was a ‘Negro’ too colourful for the Braves organization. Aaron always considered Covington to be a better player than himself and although Covington was called up to play with the Braves, he never reached the status that Aaron thought he deserved.
Aaron's’ professional career actually started in 1947 with the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro Leagues. He was a standout Shortstop. Had the Major Leagues truly integrated African American Teams and players into the game, Worldwide Media would have integrated African American Ownership in North American sport. In truth, while the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba are top Leagues in the World, the U.S.A market for Baseball has far too much bigotry when it comes to changing economic times.
When Aaron reached the Majors in 1954, he joined a great team. With Spahn, Sain, and Lou Burdette in the rotation, and Joe Adcock and Eddie Mathews in the lineup, the Braves were peaking when Aaron joined them. It all came together in 1957, with Aaron leading the way. Aaron won the MVP that year and led Milwaukee to their first World Series Title, the organization’s first since their days in Boston. They looked poised to win more but were defeated the next year against the New York Yankees in their rematch of the ’57 Series. They never won another World Series Title in Milwaukee (to this day).
The team re-located to Atlanta in 1966, but didn’t win a Series in the remainder of Aaron’s' career.
Aaron did however have another goal in mind (although I’m sure he’d have taken another World Series Title instead), he was inching close to Ruth’s career home-run record of 714.
When Aaron started to get close in 1973 he received hate letters and death threats in large numbers. To understand this hatred is of ignorance. Aaron passed Babe Ruth early in the season of 1974, and then went back to Milwaukee to finish his career with the expansion Milwaukee Brewers.
Henry Aaron is now the only African-American President of Operations and has held this position with the Atlanta Braves since 1988. It would stand to reason that America’s pastime would promote African American ownership at three levels;

The MLBPA (Major League Baseball Players Association)
Ownership of specific franchises
Major League Executive positions

It was 1936, in Berlin,Germany, when Jesse Owens defeated Nazi-ism by winning four Gold Medals. In 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in MLB. In 2008 there are zero African American Owners in Major League Baseball. There has never been an African American named Commissioner.
This was why the British and the Americans fought WW11?