For Hank Aaron life was all about baseball from the start. Born in segregated Mobile, Alabama in 1934, Aaron grew up playing sand lot baseball and was recruited to play in the Negro League while still in high school. His talents were soon recognized by scouts from the Major League and in 1952 he signed with the Braves, beginning with their minor league team, the Eau Claire Bears. Although Jackie Robinson and a few others blazed the trail, Aaron was among the first African-Americans to integrate professional baseball and this book in the “Crabtree Groundbreaker Biographies” series.