A uniform worn by Yankees legend Roger Maris’ while he smashed 61 home runs in his epic 1961 season could fetch more than $1 million at an auction later this month. The pinstripes from the slugger’s ...
Roger Maris’ chase of Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record in 1961 is a seminal moment in baseball history. It captured the imagination of the sports public at the time and has since been ...
On Wednesday, Aaron Judge made history when he hit his 61st home run of the season, tying Roger Maris for the AL record. There has been some debate on whether Maris’s mark is the true single-season ...
New York Yankees All-Stars Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger gave the American League a huge boost in their way to a win on Tuesday ...
Roger Maris set one of the most famous records in the history of sports when he hit 61 homers in 1961. He won multiple MVPs, appeared in seven World Series, and earned seven All-Star game appearances.
In 1962, Roger Maris was coming off his record-breaking season and back-to-back American League MVP awards. After more than doubling his salary (from $32,000 to $70,000) and knocking off Babe Ruth as ...
If you believe Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are the genuine, honest-to-goodness home run champions, perhaps you’ll recall Ben Johnson as a great Olympic gold medalist, Lance Armstrong as ...
I’m not writing this to sell books. “Sixty-One” is long out of print. No royalty money to be made. I am writing for the same reason Kubek wanted to do the book. With Aaron Judge breaking the American ...
So now all the home run magic that had begun over 100 years ago with Babe Ruth, that had once run through the magical home run summer of 1961 with Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, had found its way to ...
Women decry his 2021 comment about “miserable” childless women. Also: Clearing homeless encampments; food and gas prices; wildfire names. At Yankee Stadium on Oct. 1, 1961, Mr. Durante, a 19-year-old ...