Henry Aaron’s Quiet Grace

It’s the Atlanta Braves versus the Los Angeles Dodgers on a warm spring day in 1974. One pitch changed everything when Hank Aaron’s milestone home run broke Babe Ruth’s legendary record. Major League Baseball manager and former player Dusty Baker joins Doc Rivers to talk about Hank Aaron’s achievements and his election into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. They discuss the adversity Aaron faced as he was forced to confront racism in his pursuit to become one of the most accomplished baseball players of all time. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Henry Aaron’s Quiet Grace is an episode from It Was Said: Sports by C13Originals.

This episode is 22:10 long.

This episode was published on Oct 6, 2021.

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