This story is about a baseball player in 1952. His name is Hank “the hammer” Aaron. He was one of the best African American baseball players ever. He even shattered babe’s homerun record in 1974. He loved the sport and he didn’t care about fame or money, he just wanted to play ball. In high school Hank played football. He was the all star for his team an all American. He even got offers from Florida A and M but declined it for baseball. He became really good at base ball so he stuck with it for the rest of his life. Hank had an older sister that ran the family tavern and was a sever to make money. His brother Herbert jr. worked at a grocery store to make money. And as for Hank he mowed and picked potatoes to make money. His dad was an assistant for a boilermaker at the dry docks and his mom was a stay at home mom. They only made eight to nine dollars total. Hank had a brother that died at two because of pneumonia. And he had a son who had as an infant also. So Hank had a couple of thought things to deal with that had to be hard for him. Hank went from an all American football player to the world’s greatest baseball player. The reason why he went to baseball was he liked it more and he didn’t think he was that great at football. He always played base ball with his friends as a kid. After his choruses were done he would take a path that he made from his house to the park and would play ball there. In the 1960s he played in the Negro league. He was the best in the league. He got so many offers but he only went to Milwaukee to play there for 14 years and then he went to Atlanta to play there for nine years. All together Hank played baseball for 23 years in the major league. In that 23 years he had shattered babes record for most homeruns and got put in the hall of fame also and he still is today. That’s the story about Hank “The Hammer”