THE Hank Aaron Thread

[irv]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

One of my favorite baseball quotes: Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. Curt Simmons, maybe.

Joe Adcock, Peter.

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. Joe Adcock"
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/joe_adcock_104230
http://izquotes.com/quote/1220

[profholt82]

Wonderful story, Adam, thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed reading this.

[geosluggo]

I got to see Aaron play in 1975 when he went to the Brewers and they came to Baltimore to play the Orioles, the closest team to the D.C. area where I grew up. I was in the 5th grade. Even at that age I understood he was past his prime but still appreciated that I was seeing a legend. He went hitless against Jim Palmer on a frigid April night but it was still a huge thrill for me. I got to meet him a couple times as an adult and he was a very decent, genuine guy. People forget he was a lifetime .305 hitter and never struck out 100 times in a season. Put on some weight near the end of his career but never a big guy to hit all those HRs.

[RayBShotz]

A few Hanks.

[geosluggo]

My Hank Aaron collection. The lack of a 1954 rookie card gnaws at me.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by irv

Joe Adcock, Peter.

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. Joe Adcock"
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/joe_adcock_104230
http://izquotes.com/quote/1220

Curt Simmons, according to Baseball Almanac.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoaar.shtml

[Exhibitman]

Sure, post away; celebrate Hank Aaron, not me and my stuff. Here's a few more:

When I was 12 I got a big box of cards from some family friends with grown kids and there were a bunch of 1968 Atlantic Oil contest cards in there. Ever since I've liked the set. There was a small find of unopened pieces in the 1990s but even those yielded relatively few nice cards because of the tendency of the glue to slop over the card edges and the overall difficulty removing perforated cards from the packet. I was pretty stoked to get this Aaron recently:



Ex-Mt is really nice for the issue.

Some box cards:

Transogram:



Nabisco both variations:




1970 Action Cartridge (full box):



1976 Hostess; boy did I eat a lot of this crap as a kid:

[ALR-bishop]

Third row middle



Bottom row

[HRBAKER]

[Neal]

some regionals (would love to find a Spic and Span)

1960LakeAaron.jpg

1954JCAaron.jpg

[Mark70Z]

There are some nice and some very rare items being posted that’s for sure. Really enjoying this recently posted Aaron thread. Keep ‘em coming.

Do any of you guys collect the proof stuff of Hank as well? For some reason I love the proofs made for cards and other related items like the transparencies, match print photos, progressive proofs, etc. Man, if I was an Aaron collector I’d go broke in the Memory Lane Auction.

[kailes2872]

In 1981 or 1982 I bought the baseball address book. Believe it or not, it had the home address of every living ball player. It even had a section in the back that had amended addresses of those who recently moved.

I sent out letters to probably 100 players. Rod Carew and George Brett were my favorites at the time. I would write letters telling them how much I liked them and even sent my school picture. I was 9 or 10 and pretty pathetic.

I received 2 packages in return. One was from Stan Musial. It was a postcard that had a shot of him kneeling with an autograph that said "To Kevin, Best Wishes, Stan Musial".

Then a few weeks later, I got an 8x10 envelope from Henry Aaron. In it, it contained an autographed 8x10, a blank business card sized piece that had his autograph and a modern Babe Ruth card that was two connected together that he had signed in between.

Unfortunately, when I sold my collection after I went to college, I sold those autographs with it. I wish I would have kept them. Now, I have a signed Mays/Aaron picture (signed by both), a signed baseball, and the Steiner SI cover picture of 715 that he signed as well. He will always be my favorite player of all-time as he took the time to send that stuff back to a 9 year old kid.

[RobertC]

A few regional issues, etc.

[lowpopper]

This is my favorite by far from my current inventory: