Happy birthday, Hammerin’ Hank

Posted by Ron Kaplan on 5 Feb 2010 | General Baseball

The man considered by more than a few to be the “real” all-time home run king turns 76 today.

At the risk of appearing lazy (I prefer to consider it “recycling”) here’s a link to last year’s birthday tribute to Hammerin’ Hank with a list of books about the Hall of Fame slugger.

Howard Bryant’s The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron (Pantheon), will be published in May. I think it’s cool to have bios on two of the game’s all-time greats coming out at the same time. How cool would it have been to have Aaron and Mays collaborate, a la Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson in Sixty Feet Six Inches?

By the way, there’s another biography on a famous slugger due out on this spring: Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero, by Thomas Calvin (Touchstone).

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Author: Ron Kaplan

In addition to working as a sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey publication, I’m also a freelance writer, specializing in book reviews — primarily baseball-related — as well as pop culture. My work has appeared in such publications as Baseball America, New York Sportscene, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mental Floss, ForeWord Magazine, January Magazine, E Magazine, Irish America, and American Book Review, among others. I also serve as editor for the Society for American Baseball Research’s Bibliography Committee Newsletter. Most of the articles on this blog are my own, with other items and reviews of note included for your interest and reference.

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