Hank Aaron’s death last Friday brought forth a steady stream of highlights, respectful reflections and revelations about his baseball career. But one revelation was missing. We waited in vain to see a declarative sentence with just ten words: Hank Aaron is major league baseball’s all-time home run leader. Those words, whose truth is irrefutable due to his non-cheating record of 755 home runs, were neither spoken nor seen in print. Talk about ignoring the elephant in the room.