What do you say when one of the greatest to ever play the game leaves us?
How do you encapsulate the ways he changed the game, the sport, and the country in which it was played?
How do you even come close to knowing what he went through, to touching greatness by even just witnessing it?
Perhaps today I am grateful for the beauty that Hank Aaron gave us through the wonderful game of baseball
While also thinking of all the violence (physical & mental) he suffered & endured simply to exist. I can’t think of Hank Aaron living to 86 being a miracle without thinking of George & Breonna & Elijah & Rayshard & Daniel & Atiana & Aura & Stephon & Botham & Philando & Alton &
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