Appreciation: Hank Aaron’s cherished connection to Bud Selig and Wisconsin will be missed
LA TimesHank Aaron looks over his shoulder during a news conference in New Orleans on April 1, 1974. “A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep South,” Scully intoned, as only Scully could, “for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol.” × Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run. So is Bud Selig, who was among Aaron’s best friends for more than 60 years, through his time well before he became owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and baseball’s commissioner. I will miss him.” Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, left, greets Hank Aaron before announcing the winners of the Hank Aaron Award before Game 4 of the 2014 World Series. “He said to me, ‘Who would have ever thought all those years ago that a Black kid from Mobile, Ala., would break Babe Ruth’s home run record and a Jewish kid from Milwaukee would become commissioner of baseball?’ “ In the twilight of Aaron’s career, Selig brought him back to Milwaukee from Atlanta for a couple of seasons with the American League Brewers.
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