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Steve Fennessy: This is
Georgia Today, I m Steve Fennessy. It s Friday, Jan. 29th, 2021. Last week, the nation lost not just a titan of Major League Baseball, but an American icon.
Henry Aaron: I had a great career. I played for 23 years. And that s the end of it. You know, I hope that the home run is not the only thing that people or anybody, for that matter, Black or white, look at me and say, that s the only thing that he could do.
Steve Fennessy: That s former Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron in a 2018 interview with 11 Alive News. Aaron died Jan. 22nd. He was 86. It would be difficult to overstate Henry Aaron s impact on not just baseball, but the nation. Yes, he broke Babe Ruth s home run record in 1974, but Aaron s journey from Mobile, Alabama, to baseball s Hall of Fame was a fraught and complicated one. Here to discuss Henry Aaron is ESPN senior writer Howard Bryant, who s also a contributor on NPR s
Terry Kay, a Georgia author whose novels line bookshelves in homes and libraries, died in his Athens home Dec. 12, ending a path Kay knew was imminent in October when doctors told him he had only weeks to live.
Kay, 82, succumbed to aggressive stage 4 liver cancer, but in those intervening weeks he was able to have in-home visits with his family members and friends and read the many comforting comments people left on social media.
The author, who began his career as a novelist in 1976 with “The Year the Lights Came On” and found fame in 1990 with “To Dance with the White Dog,” had 17 published works, three adapted as movies. The awards he earned were numerous.
When I wrote a review of Terry Kayâs latest book, his 18th, I had no idea that the next offering about this exceptional and accomplished man without a mean spirited bone in his makeup would be an obituary.
Unlike the principal characters in âThe Forever Wish of Middy Sweet,â there was no tragedy in his real life as with his characters who were trying to find something that was missing in his sundown years. What might have been was not a refrain to which he was beholden. The tragedy is that, even though he lived 82 good years, it was an early departure. Much too early, âdamnit.â
When I wrote a review of Terry Kayâs latest book, his 18th, I had no idea that the next offering about this exceptional and accomplished man, without a mean spirited bone in his makeup, would be an obituary.
Unlike the principal characters in âThe Forever Wish of Middy Sweet,â there was no tragedy in his real life as with his characters who were trying to find something that was missing in his sundown years. What might have been was not a refrain to which he was beholding. The tragedy is that, even though he lived 82 good years, it was an early departure.