I had been unaware about Hank Aaron's racial struggles until I read it in the history books. When I started following baseball, he was one of it's great star. I read in my baseball book that the Milwaukee Braves won the World Series in 1957, the year that I was born. That cemented his place as a hero to me.
The game where he hit the home run was on national TV so I didn't get to see it live. I watched the subsequent celebration.
When I read about the hate mail that he received, also in a history book, I made up my mind that I would write him and tell him what a hero that he was to me. I eventually did write one.
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