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Before he was Hammerin' Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy growing up in
Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a
big-league baseball player. He didn't have a bat. He didn't have a
ball. And there wasn't a single black ball player in the major leagues.
But none of this could stop Henry Aaron. In a captivating biography of
Henry Aaron's young life -- from his sandlot days through his time in
the Negro Leagues to the day he played his first spring training game
for the Braves -- Matt Tavares offers an inspiring homage to one of
baseball's all-time greats.
Matt Tavares hits one out of the
park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who
would become baseball’s home-run king.
Matt Tavares is the illustrator of Iron
Hans: A Grimms’ Fairy Tale; ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, or an
Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas; Jack and the Beanstalk; Doreen Rappaport’s Lady Liberty: A Biography; and Kristin Kladstrup’s The Gingerbread Pirates, as well as the author-illustrator of Zachary’s Ball, Oliver ’s Game, and Mudball. He lives in Ogunquit, Maine.
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