Aaron is all class
When I was a kid, about the only sport that was on TV regularly was doubleheader baseball on weekends with Pee Wee Reese and Dizzy Dean. Milwaukee was the closest good team, and I collected baseball cards religiously. My favorite was the “fence busters” – Joe Adcock, Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron, with all three on the same card.
I just loved watching Hank play. He never seemed to have to run that hard to make a catch and cranked on the ball so fast that I really couldn’t see the swing well, just the result when the ball would rocket into the stands. Everything was textbook, which I think is why he never looked like it took him much effort to do anything. And he was absolute class. I recognized that even as a youngster in grade school.
As I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in a small Midwest town, Hank influenced my outlook on race positively.
I was in law school when he broke the record. I should have written him then, to tell him what I just wrote here. Thanks, Hank; you were the best, in many more ways than just baseball.
Larry Gardner, Englewood
Silencing of Sergio
Several things to appreciate from the British Open. An Irishman won, at least for now we don’t have to listen to Sergio Garcia tell us how great he is, and at least Sergio didn’t spit in the cup! Now if we could only get rid of those silly Sergio commercials!
L. Hunley, Grand Junction
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