Hank Aaron: References & Edit History
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For coverage of Hank Aaron’s home-run race, see George Plimpton, One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron’s Chase for the Home-Run Record (1974). Autobiographies include Hank Aaron and Dick Schaap, Home Run: My Life in Pictures (1999); and Hank Aaron and Lonnie Wheeler, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story (1991).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: CNN Business - Legend interviews legend: Larry King talks with Hank Aaron. | Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 01, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ESPN - Hank Aaron was one of the five best MLB players ever: Here's why he was even better than his 755 home runs. | Jan 19, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Baseball Almanac - Hank Aaron. | Nov 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The History Makers - Hank Aaron. | Sep 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Hank Aaron on Life, Baseball, and that Crazy Homerun Record. | Aug 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN Business - Legend interviews legend: Larry King talks with Hank Aaron. | Nov 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Hank Aaron. | Sep 09, 2024 | ||
| Article revised and media added. | Apr 08, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Jan 30, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 03, 2022 | ||
| He died on January 22, 2021. | Jan 22, 2021 | ||
| Noted that he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | Mar 19, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of Achievement - Hank Aaron. | Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Great Black Heroes - Biography of Hank Aaron. | Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Hank Aaron. | Oct 17, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron. | Oct 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Baseball Hall of Fame - Biography of Hank Aaron. | Oct 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Society for American Baseball Research - Biography of Hank Aaron. | Oct 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Know Southern History - Biography of Hank Aaron. | Oct 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Alabama - Hank Aaron. | Aug 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: HickokSports.com - Biography of Henry Aaron. | Aug 13, 2013 | ||
| Clarified where a number of Aaron's career statistics rank all-time. | Feb 03, 2012 | ||
| Opening of the Hank Aaron Childhood Home and Museum added. | Apr 16, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Entertainment - Biography of Hank Aaron. | Mar 01, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 17, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 08, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 15, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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