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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT by Joanna Korbaby Joanna Korba ILLUSTRATION CREDIT: Paul Casale PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover Associated Press. 3 MLB Photos via Getty Images. 7 © Bettmann/CORBIS. 8 National Baseball Hall of Fame Library/MLB Photos via Getty Images. 10 (t) © Bettmann/CORBIS. (c) © Bettmann/CORBIS. (b) Associated Press. 11 MLB Photos via Getty Images. 12 © Artville. 13 Getty Images. 14 Associated Press. Copyright © by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers, Attn: Permissions, 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. Printed in China ISBN-10: 0-547-25355-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-574-25355-8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 0940 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers retains title to the materials and they may not be resold. Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited. Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication, or any portion of it, into electronic format. Early Years It was 1941. A skinny seven-year-old boy stood in a tiny yard in Mobile, Alabama. He was trying to hit soda bottle tops with a stick. He had to swing fast to hit the tops before they fell on the ground. The boy’s name was Henry Aaron. His friends called him Hank. The name Hank was shorter to pronounce, or say. When Hank grew up,