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Legacies are on the line this championship Sunday. In the NFC, six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady leads the Buccaneers in a Week 6 rematch against MVP favorite Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. The AFC championship pits Patrick Mahomes and the returning champion Chiefs against Josh Allen and an upstart Bills franchise seeking its first Super Bowl berth since losing four consecutive championships in the early 1990s.

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Henry Louis Aaron has died at age 86. He was one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, and saying so sells him short. Joe Morgan, the dynamic two-time MVP who died last October, is also one of the greatest ballplayers of all time—one of just 21 position players to collect 100 career bWAR, and one of just 10 to do so since integration. The difference between Aaron’s career bWAR and Morgan’s is greater than the difference between Morgan’s career bWAR and Sal Bando’s.
 

Hank Aaron’s legacy is tied up significantly in the numbers: primarily the number 755, the career home run record he retired with in 1976 and held for more than three decades. Less celebrated but no less impressive: his 3,771 career hits and 13,941 plate appearances (both third all time); and his 2,297 RBI, 6,856 total bases, and 1,477 extra-base hits. MLB has been a going concern for almost 150 years, with almost 20,000 total players. Aaron’s got more career RBI, extra-base hits, and total bases than any other. No caveats about era or adjustments for offensive environment are necessary. There’s the pile, and then there’s Aaron at the very top.

But let’s step back from the numbers, if that’s possible, and go back to the eye test ...

[Remembering the Hall of Famer, whose on-field accomplishments were matched by his off-field impact, by Michael Baumann.]