Hank Aaron Observations of the Day

From the 1955 through the 1973 season Hank Aaron (ages 21-39) put together an impressive string of nineteen straight seasons with consecutive top seventeen placements in the yearly MVP voting. Of those nineteen seasons Aaron placed in the top ten thirteen times.

This remarkable consistency yielded one MVP award and seven top three placements. Those top three placements were spread out nicely over the following years: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1969 and 1971.