Tom Stanton, an award-winning journalist of twenty-five years, is the author of two memoirs, The Road to Cooperstown and The Final Season, winner of the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. He lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their children.
"Stanton captures the embittering and, finally, uplifting sides of Aaron's personal story from that record-breaking campaign." -- Library Journal"One of 2004's better sports histories." -- Chicago Sun-Times"Entertaining ...Stanton's work best exposes...the man who hit that home run." -- Mobile Register"Engaging...The real story here...is of the trials this wondrous player endured on the way to his big moment." -- Sports Illustrated"Powerful...Baseball books rarely reach the heights of Stanton's...Excellent." -- Chicago Tribune
When, after more than two decades of knocking baseballs over fences, "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron finally approached Babe Ruth's last "unbreakable" record -714 lifetime home runs-not all of baseball was cheering him on. In addition to enduringthe intensifying media scrutiny, the quiet, black slugger had his life threatened and race denigrated by scores of antifans in phone calls and letters. Stanton (The Final Season) captures the embittering and, finally, uplifting sides of Aaron's personal story from that record-breaking campaign that ended 30 years ago this April. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
"Stanton captures the embittering and, finally, uplifting sides of Aaron's personal story from that record-breaking campaign." -- Library Journal"One of 2004's better sports histories." -- Chicago Sun-Times"Entertaining ...Stanton's work best exposes...the man who hit that home run." -- Mobile Register"Engaging...The real story here...is of the trials this wondrous player endured on the way to his big moment." -- Sports Illustrated"Powerful...Baseball books rarely reach the heights of Stanton's...Excellent." -- Chicago Tribune
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