Hank Aaron On His Cause And His Game

Sadly, America's scientists are largely prevented from exploring the Peruvian Indians total lack of arthritic conditions and their eating leaves of the Cocaine bush for altitude sickness because of America's failed War on Drugs.

Instead the millions of American's stricken with various forms of arthritic diseases must rely on extremely toxic and outright dangerious legal prescription drugs which mostly only alleviate the pain and rarely if ever cure the underlining arthritic condition and disease.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that Big Pharma is one of the major contributers to Republican lawmakers in their failed War on Drugs which is seen by more and more American's simply as a War on Americans by special interest groups funding Republican lawmakers to enforce their special interests.

The Human Condition is predisposed to OA regardless of intense physical activity or not. It has not been sufficiently addressed in that respect and a national hero like Hank Aaron is the perfect spokesman to bring it to the attention of millions. His accomplishments in baseball were no doubt scrubbed down a bit because of race. I remember all too well the threats he received prior to his attempt at breaking the long held sacrosanct home run record of Babe Ruth...He broke it on April 8, 1974. I will always remember that day and so to will I remember the name of the legend Hank Aaron...American Hero.

When generations upon generations and millions upon millions of Americans view the game of Baseball and it’s players under such light.. Knee problems is the least of concerns.. Just what in the world do they put in those Milk and Oreos..? Extraordinarily atrocious.

Smith in Oregon,
Take it elsewhere; it's become terribly boring.

Well regardless of if you think he is a great baseball player or not. If you have the problem or condition. This is good information a person needs to know to help them out.

@ Chris, what the hell are you ranting at? My comment is SPOT ON in regards to what Hank Aaron and millions of American's are suffering from.

@ Chris, my comment in regards to research on a possible cure of OA is entirely spot on in regards to this current Blog post and what if anything can help millions of Americans stricken with arthritic diseases.

Oxidative stress can and will lead to many problems such as OA. If I could speak to Mr. Aaron, I would encourage him to try alternative methods such as intracellular nutrition before resorting to drugs and or surgery.

I recommend researching Glutathione Accelerators. Glutathione is responsible for managing oxidative stress on our cells, thus reducing inflammation. Good luck.

It's "pastime," not pass-time. If you're going to cover a baseball story, please be familiar with the general vernacular. In response to the story itself, I'm glad Hank is responding well to this treatment. Hopefully this will lead to people with OA to function more normally.

The best living players come down to Willie Mays and Hank Aaron? I agree with that, but why is Stan Musial always left out of this conversation? I just don't understand it......

Mark is correct. Stan Musial should definitely be considered a living legend. The problem is that he and Ted Williams were the greatest baseball players in the generation before Aaron and Mays (although, of course, their playing days overlapped). Musial's longevity is yet another demonstration of what a great athlete he was.

"Pass-time"? Come on CNN, learn to write english properly, you're a major news organization for crying out loud.

Stan Musial was a great player, but you can't deny that Aaron and Mays were even better. And why not Yastrzemski? We could go on about this for hours, but to filter it down to Mays and Aaron is OK with me – and a lot of other baseball fans, evidently. Sometimes you just have to let go...

To Larry King - whether you look at stats, longevity, overall
contribution to the game, or any other measure, Stan Musial
is easily the equal of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron - was on
MLB's Team of the Century, and will be 90 years old this year.

By what norms and criteria could you say that Stan Musial
does not belong in the company of Willie Mays and Hank
Aaron as one of the THREE greatest living legends of baseball?
East Coast media focus? You should honor him for his
90th birthday by inviting him to be on your show.

Just remember the man , who he was and what he did for the game and humanity.

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Just a follow up on the THREE greatest living legends among
America's all time best baseball players:

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) ranks
Aaron 4th. Musial 5th, and Mays 8th;

Bill James ranks Mays 3rd, Musial 10th, and Aaron 12th;

Baseball Evolution ranks Musial 9th, Mays 10th, and Aaron 12th;

The Sporting News ranks Mays 2nd, Aaron 5th, and Musial 10th;

The Bleacher Report ranks Musial 6th, Aaron 10th and Mays 18th,
and notes that Musial is "the most complete offensive player of all time."

While Aaron and Mays certainly led in homers, Musial held his own
with 475 - but baseball is more than homers, and a range of other
statistics show why many think Musial was the most dominant player
of the mid-20th Century:

Doubles: Musial leads with 725, Aaron 624, Mays 523

Triples: Musial leads with 177, Mays 140, Aaron 98

Lifetime batting average, no contest: Musial leads with a lifetime
average of .331, Aaron a distant second with .305, Mays with .302

Musial had only four seasons batting less than .300; Aaron had
9 seasons below .300, and Mays 13 seasons below .300.

Muisial also led Mays in hits, 3630 to 3283, and RBI's 1951 to 1903

Given Aaron and Mays' acknowledged lead in homers, you would
think they led Musial in Slugging Percentage as well. Not so.

Musial led in career Slugging Percentage with ,596 to Mays .557
and Aaron's .555 (all stats taken from the Baseball Almanac)

Against this background of hitting, including hitting for power,
the most amazing category that Musial distances himself from
the others is, in the fewest number of strikeouts.

Musial had six seasons in which he struck out fewer than 30 times;
while three of those were during the war years, the other three
were in the '50's. In fact, his second lowest total of 25 strikeouts
occurred in both 1942 and 1959 - an amazing level of consistency
at the beginning and end of his career - and a rate of fewer than
one strikeout per week. He easily leads Aaron and Mays in this
category over their careers: Musial 696, Aaron 1383, Mays 1526.

By the way, Musial also led the other two in 'on base percentage'
- Musial .417, Mays, 384, and Aaron .374.

So whether it is in acknowledged rankings by legitimate sources,
or in overall statistics, the obvious conclusion is that Musial is
what Bleacher Report described him: "the most complete offensive
player of all time."

He is thankfully still living, and nearing age 90 is clearly one of the
THREE greatest living legends of American baseball.

You may have been too young to see him play, Larry, but there's
no reason you and your staff couldn't do a better job of journalism.

To talk about Aaron and Mays as the two greatest living legends,
and leave Musial out when he was clearly the better player in many
areas, simply betrays a slipshod approach - worthy perhaps of
Oprah, but not of you.

Thank you for this great article and bringing the attention to this problem.

I think I could be suffering from this as well now, as my knees are starting to play up. Not a very nice thing at all. Very annoying condition and frustrating too.

I have a neighbour who suffers badly from it, so will tell him about the shot as well.

I grew up in Milw when Aaron played there, and I love the guy, Mays, too. But I agree with all the Musial supporters. I would like someone to explain to me how the greatest living legends conversation went from Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio to Hank and Willie. I guess Stan the Man didn't have a good enough tag team partner. The guy is 90 and baseball absolutely needs to honor this great, great baseball player.