Henry Aaron's Dream

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.

Before he was Hammerin€ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing 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. B ut none of this could stop Henry Aaron. In a captivating biography of Henr y 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.