It takes more than two minutes to 'speed read' Hank Aaron's career stats
Hank Aaron did a lot in his baseball career. Here's proof of a sort.
By
Dayn Perry
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1 min read
The luminous Hank Aaron is probably baseball's best combination of sprawl, span and thoroughgoing excellence. After all, the man hit 755 homers and 624 doubles; reached base more than 5,000 times; and logged almost 14,000 plate appearances. Oh, and he maintained an OPS+ of 155 over 23 big-league seasons. Oh, and he did all that without much in the way of a discernible decline phase. He was one of the very, very best, you know.
The point -- and there is one -- is that Aaron authored a lot of numbers. Speaking of those career bestowals, how long would it take to "speed-read" them? Needless to say, this is an important question. Using the Spreed speed-reading extension and a copy-and-paste of the relevant portions of Mr. Aaron's Baseball-Reference page, we're about to find out.
Let's roll the action-news footage ...
As you have just witnessed, it takes 2:23 to speed-read Mr. Aaron's career numbers. And that's without repeating each of the statistical categories after each number. Do that, and it would take much longer. In terms of time commitment, speed-reading Hank Aaron's career numbers is not unlike speed-reading a Harper's think-piece on the Serious Matter of your choosing (although the former is consistently more enjoyable).
There's no quick way to absorb -- let alone impart -- the breadth of Hank Aaron's career, is what I'm saying. He was awesome at baseball, is also what I'm saying.
