''[[The Sporting News]]'' placerede i [[1999]] Hank Aaron som den femtebedste baseballspiller i historien,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/lisn100.shtml | title=100 Greatest Baseball Players by The Sporting News | publisher=Baseball Almanac | accessdate=2007-12-26}}</ref> og baseballanalytikeren [[Bill James]] rangerede Aaron som den andenbedste rightfielder nogensinde i sin bog ''The New Historical Baseball Abstract''.<ref>{{cite book | title=The New Historical Baseball Abstract | url=https://archive.org/details/newbilljameshist00jame | last=James | first=Bill | pages=[https://archive.org/details/newbilljameshist00jame/page/785 785] | publisher=Free Press | year=2001 | isbn=0-7432-2722-0}}</ref> Han blev valgt ind i [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] i [[1982]], hans første år som kandidat.
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