Hank Aaron was one of the earliest black baseball players in MLB, and he was very triumphant, in fact he broke such an important record, he was considered one of the best to ever play. Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record, with a career total of 755 home runs, which still stands today. But not all of his career was solid, Hank Aaron had a lot of problems with the public too. Hank Aaron was the victim of racism, death threats, and harassment, but he chose to rise above the hate and actually used it to his own success. Since Hank Aaron did this, he made history in MLB, took a big step in the American Civil Rights Act, and stopped tons of racism toward blacks in their tracks.
Hank Aaron was a famous MLB right fielder and cross-hitter who broke many MLB records in the course of his career. In the article Hank Aaron: Hammerin’ Back at Racism Swartz states his success many times. For example, “Alphabetically and arithmetically, what could be finer than having "Aaron, Hank" as the first name listed in The Baseball Encyclopedia?” (Schwartz, 1). In other words, Schwartz states Hank Aaron was a worthy person to hold the title of the best player ever in MLB,
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Hank had two choices on how to handle all of these threats and all of the racism he suffered from, and he chose to rise above it and keep going. For instance, according to Bob Nightengale, “Henry took a lot of abuse when he broke that record, but he rose above all that.” (Nightengale, 1 ). One can see Nightengale asserts how Hank suffered from a lot of abuse, like racism and death threats, but he chose to rise above it and play the game, instead of letting them stopping him. Hank Aaron was given a choice on how to handle racism, and he rose above it. Since Hank Aaron rose above the abuse, the quality of his career was majorly affected, as well as many other