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(April 7)\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eThree Emory University baseball players set out to explore the history of the sport's legends last year. They didn't expect to find a connection between themselves and names like Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks or Pete Rose.Kyle Arbuckle, Warren...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThree Emory University baseball players set out to explore the history of the sport's legends last year. \u003cbr/\u003eThey didn't expect to find a connection between themselves and names like Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks or Pete Rose.\u003cbr/\u003eKyle Arbuckle, Warren Kember and Brett Lake teamed up last year to dig through Emory's collection of Hank Aaaron materials, donated in 2013 by a former scout for the Atlanta Braves. The collection includes scouting reports, contracts and letters Aaron received as he chased Babe Ruth's home run record.\u003cbr/\u003eThe reports included critiques the Emory juniors have heard about their own play.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Soft hands.\" \"Can't run.\" \"No chance for power.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTurns out, athletes at every level know the sting of criticism.\u003cbr/\u003eTuesday is the 40th anniversary of Aaron's record-breaking home run. The exhibit the students created using the library materials opens on April 24 at the university's Robert W. Woodruff Library.\u003cbr/\u003eThe students were the first to look at some of the documents in the collection, said Pellom McDaniels, an assistant professor of African American Studies and curator of African American collections at Emory. It's rare for undergraduates to be as engaged with library collections as the teammates became, especially without getting course credit for the work, McDaniels said.\u003cbr/\u003eBut they saw themselves in the yellowing paperwork, especially the scouting reports.\u003cbr/\u003eKember got the project started after he attended a lecture series on race in sports culture. He went to McDaniels the next day and asked to look at the collection on Aaron.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I was just like a kid in the candy store flipping through the scouting reports,\" Kember, 21, said.\u003cbr/\u003eThey all were horrified by the negative and occasionally threatening letters that Aaron received.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the item that stands out most for Arbuckle, 20, and Lake, 21, is a photo taken at the moment Aaron hit his 715th home run. A screen in the outfield reads \"Move over Babe.\"\u003cbr/\u003eArbuckle said he has heard stories of what it was like to play at that time from his godfather, Dusty Baker. But reading the messages to Aaron and looking at the photographs was a reminder of how far the sport has come in 40 years, he said.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eAtlanta - April 7, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid zoom tight Indianapolis Clowns Negro American League baseball game poster from the 1952 When Hank Aaron played for them\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tight letterhead of Indianapolis Clowns May 27, 1952 contract letter to the Milwaukee Braves\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid of a Western Union telegram of the Clowns releasing Aaron to the Evansville Baseball Club\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tight of the Western Union telegram\u003cbr/\u003e5. Setup shot of Pellom McDaniels III, assistant professor of African-American Studies at Emory University and the curator of the collection\u003cbr/\u003e6. (SOUNDBITE) McDaniels: \"The types of materials that you will find in this collection for the exhibition will be letters that Hank Aaron received both supporting his breaking of the record but also were the discouraging, which we label as hate mail. You'll find copies of contracts between the Indianapolis Clowns and the Milwaukee Braves at the time. Telegrams to Hank Aaron telling him about what expectations, where he should be at different moments.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of McDaniels looking through a folder of letters to Hank Aaron\u003cbr/\u003e8. Tight of a death-threat letter to Aaron\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tight of a letter that McDaniels explains comes from a young boy not want Aaron to break Babe Ruth's home run record\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tight of newspaper headline clipping that someone sent Aaron with derogatory comments handwritten in the margins\u003cbr/\u003e11. (SOUNDBITE) McDaniels: \"But probably some of the collection that other people will not be able to find in any other place are the scouting reports the Braves kept on their players they were scouting. From Hank Aaron to, I'm trying to think of different names tight now, Willie Mays, you have Vida Blue, you'll have also Pete Rose. So there is an A-list and a B-list and there's also a C-list and a D-list.\u003cbr/\u003e12. Emory University students and baseball players, from right to left, Brett Lake, Kyle Arbuckle and Warren Kember who are putting the exhibition together for the university\u003cbr/\u003e13. (SOUNDBITE) Warren Kember explaining how they got the idea to start work on the exhibition: \"It started when my roommate Kyle told me about the Race and African-American Sports Collection (at Emory University). He was going for a class and he told me about it and one of the first things that Pellom went on stage to talk about was we have this great new collection about Hank Aaron and the home run record and all of these scouting reports. And so right away I was intrigued.\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid zoom tight of Kember holding a Western Union telegram about Aaron\u003cbr/\u003e15. Kyle Arbuckle displaying team and Western Union documents \u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid zoom tight of Brett Lake showing pictures in a book of Aaron and Ruth\u003cbr/\u003e17. (SOUNDBITE) McDaniels: \"The 40th anniversary, you know, stands for a number of things and I think that baseball is what we celebrate but there are so many other aspects that can be teased out.\" \u003cbr/\u003e18. 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