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When Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record, Ryan Howard was still 5 years from being born. So by the time the Phillies future slugger was growing up, Aaron was a piece of history, a newsreel clip, a story passed down from the previous generation.

Last night, they met for the first time.

And the occasion couldn't have been more special for the Phillies' young first baseman, who has burst onto the baseball scene in the last 18 months like a comet streaking across a darkened sky. In a conference room beneath the stands at Busch Stadium, before scheduled Game 4 of the World Series, he was presented the Hank Aaron Award as the National League's most outstanding hitter as determined by an Internet vote.

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