I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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I want to applaud the commissioner, and I also just want to make sure that whatever we do, we make sure that we clean up baseball.Hank Aaron
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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