Its baseball with the 1 Minor League Team of the Year and a visit to the home of the all-time home run king when you visit the Hank Aaron Childhood Home and Museum in Mobile, Alabama. Its right next to Hank Aaron Stadium, The Hank.
The Mobile Baybears, AA Affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks, were named the 2011 Southern League Champion and 1 Minor League Team of the Year by Baseball America.
Baseball was something everyone played and Hank Aaron began with a broom stick and bottle caps in front of his house. Aaron overcame economic struggles, racial prejudice, and intolerance and followed his dream.
When the City of Mobile built Carver Park in 1945, the citys first recreational park for African Americans, there were neighborhood baseball games after school and on weekends. Hank Aaron played against Willie McCovey and Billy Williams, who also went on to be Baseball Hall of Famers.
In 1948, when he was 14, Hank Aaron saw his hero Jackie Robinson when the Brooklyn Dodgers stopped Mobile. It was a time of separate schools, restaurants, hotels, drinking fountains, and baseball teams for blacks and whites.
In 1952, Ed Scott, Mobile Black Bears manager and part time scout for the Indiana Clowns, went to see an area game and noticed the hitting ability of a third baseman. "The key to budget travel is to prepare onward. When it comes along to family trips, globetrotting, well-deserved vacations and/or going to see new destinations we have never been before, the reality of cost and budgeting is often in the back of our thoughts. Organizing and expending our travel budget correctly is a consideration for most families. Curbing expending and costs, while still taking pleasure in your vacation to its fullest, is the key to certain accomplishment and fiscal obligation. Your pocketbook and family will thank you! The reasoning behind saving money while touring is simple: Even if your personal funds is highly tight, you can still take a break and enjoy life! Simply put, life is just too short to never step out of the door or leaving the homestead! Also recalling that while traveling, no matter whether on a price range or not, even the smallest of things can all add op to a large vacation or travel bill!..". After the game, Scott asked Henry Aaron to play for the semi-pro Black Bears. Aaron's mother was reluctant to let him play on a team of grown men, but relented.
Aaron made $10 a week playing baseball. Ed Scott arranged an exhibition game with the Clowns. It was the 17 year old Aarons Negro League tryout, and he was offered a contract to play short stop for the Clowns for $200 a month. With $2, two pairs of pants, two sandwiches and his ball and glove, he went for his first train ride--to Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
After a year with the Clowns, he caught the attention of the Major League Boston Braves and New York Giants. The Braves bought Aarons contract from the Clowns for $10,000 and paid him $350 a month. They sent him to Eau Claire Wisconsin to finish the season with the Braves single A club--the Bears.
The Eau Claire Ledger published his first press clipping: Hank Aaron, 18 year old Negro League short stop had an auspicious beginning by banging out singles in his first two trips and picking up two RBIs. This was the first time he had been called Hank.
Homesick and ready to quit, he listened to his father who told him he would be crazy to give up the opportunity of his life. By mid-July, he was named to the Northern League All-Star game. He hit .336 for the year and was named Rookie of the Year for 1952.
The next season he was assigned to Jacksonville, Florida in the South Atlantic or Sally League. He was breaking the color line in Jacksonville and there were jeers from the stands. He led the league in runs (115), hits (208), and batting average (.362)
He earned a chance at the Major League club and joined the Braves in Spring Training. Team officials didnt think he was ready for an infield position, but in 1954 Bobby Thompson broke his ankle sliding into a base during Spring Training and the 20 year old Aaron became starting right fielder for the Milwaukee Braves.
April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron made baseball history when he hit his 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruths record. Aaron hit 30 home runs over the course of the season to finish at 733.Henry Hank Aaron is baseballs all time home run king with 755 lifetime homers.
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