Hank Aaron, baseball’s one-time home run king and Hall of Famer, died Friday at the age of 86. The Atlanta Braves, a team Aaron spent 21 seasons with, said that the MLB legend died peacefully in his sleep. Aaron made his last public appearance on Jan. 6, when he received the first of two doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Morehouse School of Medicine health clinic in Atlanta alongside his wife, Billye, former UN Ambassador Andrew Young, and former Health Secretary Louis Sullivan. He said he wanted to send a message to the black community that the vaccine was safe. “I don’t have any qualms about it at all, you know,” Aaron told The Associated Press. “I feel quite proud of myself for doing something like this … It’s just a small thing that can help zillions of people in this country.” More than 40 years after his retirement …
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