After a 16-year Major League career, Hank Aguirre established a company called Mexican Industries in 1979, with the intent of employing fellow Mexicans and other minorities who lived in an area of Detroit called “Mexicantown.” After several lean years, the company blossomed in to a $150,000,000 business by the time Hank died in 1994.

Entrepreneur, community leader, and benefactor, Aguirre’s story of a literal nuts-and-bolts beginning to an enterprise business is chronicled in the book “The Tall Mexican,” written by my father, Robert Copley, who was Hank’s friend from 1962 to 1994 and beyond.

Music: “Field Grass” by Sergei Pavkin

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