I highly recomend this quality of literature for all sports fans. Facts, dates, and personal life history are all included in a quality book which I read from cover to cover. I haver now directed my efforts to add the complete series of Baseball Legends to my library of great sports books.

James Tackach's juvenile biography of "Hank Aaron" begins with the crowning achievement of his career, when he hammered his 715th home run and passed the record of the immortal Babe Ruth. We then go back and follow Aaron's career from when he was a kid who batted cross-handed (I think that is how he built up those powerful wrists) and never dreamed of making the Major Leagues until Jackie Robinson broke the color line. Tackach's writing style combines the best of the journalist and the historian in telling Aaron's story. For young readers who have already read a short, introductory biography of Aaron, Tackach's effort nicely fills the niche between that and an adult biography. Hopefully the other volumes in the Baseball Legends series, for which Earl Weaver served as senior consultant, are as good as this one. This 64-page book is illustrated with black & white photographs, including one of his Hall of Fame plaque, and his career statistics. There is also an introduction by Jim Murray, the poet laurette of American sportswriters in my lifetime, whose words are also a joy to read.

This book has great visuals, though not really centered on Brown v. Board of Education like I'd hoped it would have been.