{"id":631,"date":"2012-04-04T11:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=631"},"modified":"2012-04-04T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:45:24","slug":"aaron-henry-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"AARON, HENRY, 1934- ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography: <\/strong>Baseball player; sports executive; businessman.\u00a0Born&#8211; February 5, 1934, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Herbert and Estella Aaron. Education&#8211; Attended public schools. Married&#8211;(1) Barbara Lucas. Children&#8211; Five. Married&#8211;(2) Billye Williams. Children&#8211; One. Played baseball with the Milwaukee Braves. 1954-65;\u00a0\u00a0with the Atlanta Braves in 1966-1974; with the Milwaukee Brewers, 1975-76.\u00a0\u00a0Set the record for career home runs, 1974. Recipient of many baseball honors; Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1982; named to National League All-Star Team every year, 1955-74.\u00a0 Awarded the honorary degree of HHD, Princeton University, 2011.\u00a0 Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aaron, r.f.&#8221; Cleveland; World Publishing Co., 1968.<\/p>\n<p>I had a Hammer; the Hank Aaron Story. New York; Harper\/Collins, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bad Henry. Radnor, Pa.; Chilton, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting the Aaron Way. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How to Hit and Run the Bases. New York; Grossett and Dunlap, 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baseball player; sports executive; businessman.\u00a0Born&#8211; February 5, 1934, Mobile. Parents&#8211; Herbert and Estella Aaron. Education&#8211; Attended public schools. Married&#8211;(1) Barbara Lucas. Children&#8211; Five. Married&#8211;(2) Billye Williams. Children&#8211; One. Played baseball with the Milwaukee Braves. 1954-65;\u00a0\u00a0with the Atlanta Braves in 1966-1974; with the Milwaukee Brewers, 1975-76.\u00a0\u00a0Set the record for career home runs, 1974. Recipient of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}