Henry Aaron Obituary: Hank Aaron, an Atlanta Braves legend and baseball’s grand slam lord, passed on Friday January 22. He was 86. A Hall of Famer, Atlanta’s first elite athletics star, and, in a mild-mannered way, an influencer in the post-Jim Crow South, Aaron came to typify Atlanta as he exemplified the Braves.

Aaron’s record of 755 homers scarcely does equity to his exceptional vocation, for he resigned with 23 significant alliance records. The unequaled RBI pioneer (2,297) additionally piled up the most extra-fair hits (1,477) and completed in the main three for at-bats (second with 12,364), runs (second with 2,174 out of a bind with Babe Ruth), games (third with 3,298) and hits (third with 3,771).

However for such slugging, he arrived at the midpoint of just 63 strikeouts for every season and resigned with a profession .305 batting normal. A 20-time All-Star, he won the 1957 NL Most Valuable Player grant and was hurried to Cooperstown on the primary polling form in 1982.