Podcast: Honoring Hammerin’ Hank Aaron
Today, we honor Hank Aaron for his greatness on the baseball field and, more impressively, his grace off of it. I worry that his legacy will be sanitized and America will intentionally forget and leave out its white supremacist and racist ugliness demonstrated toward Aaron and his family as he approached and shattered Babe Ruth's hallowed homerun record. I explore some of the possible reasons why America was so disgusted with Aaron's pursuit of America.
