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Hank Aaron’s legacy still brings former Black baseball players together


[From The Undefeated]

ATLANTA — Henry Aaron’s statue at the old Turner Field lives a reasonably lonely existence.

But on this sticky Sunday afternoon, in the bowels of the one park where the team did not win a World Series title, four men with direct connections to Aaron are sitting in the old team clubhouse, where photos of Aaron’s historic night in April 1974 adorn the walls.

But for guys like Gaston — who took over a 12-24 Toronto Blue Jays team in 1989 and won a division, then later won back-to-back World Series in 1992 and 1993 but somehow never won a manager of the year award — these kind of conversations very much feel like all they have.

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