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Maris will never be voted into the Hall of Fame, but Roger Maris won an honor that only 24 other baseball players have received. In 1961, Maris was voted the Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. The award was instituted in 1931, the same...
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Sal Durante, who caught New York Yankees Roger Maris' record-setting 61st home run 50 years ago when he was 17-years-old, holds up the ball (loaned from the Baseball Hall of Fame) after he participated in ceremonies remembering the historic day before the... View Photo »
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I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time ... I did have the knack to know where the ball was and being able to get there and fight through blockers to make tackles.
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When I joined the Minnesota Vikings as a rookie for their inaugural season in 1961, major league baseball was the national pastime. The public paid a lot more attention that year to Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home...
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When I joined the Minnesota Vikings as a rookie for their inaugural season in 1961, major league baseball was the national pastime. The public paid a lot more attention that year to Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home...
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Bison Host Oral Roberts in Play 4Kay Game Saturday; Entertain Southern Utah on Monday
North Dakota State University AthleticsWBCA Play 4Kay Breast Cancer Awareness North Dakota State head coach Carolyn DeHoff will donate $1 for every fan in attendance for the WBCA Play4Kay breast cancer awareness game on Saturday, Feb. 4, to the Sanford Health Roger Maris Cancer Center ... ...
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Roger Maris' son Roger Maris Jr. throws out the ceremonial first pitch to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roger Maris' 61 home runs in 1961, before the New York Yankees' baseball game against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, at Yankee... View Photo »
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Strasberg stood in front of a handful of students and more than a dozen aging baseball fans describing his fondest memories. He threw his hands about demonstrably in a gray long sleeve shirt with ‘Roger Maris Celebrity Golf’ across his chest. He was in...
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Pirates threatened in the bottom of the eighth, cutting the Yankees' lead to one run and leaving the tying runner 90 feet from home. On the other hand the 1967 Cardinals never figured out Jim Lonborg: They connected for just three hits and never were in...
About Roger Maris
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Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record (60 home runs in the 1927 season), in 1961, a record that would stand for 37 years. In twelve Major League seasons, he played in seven World Series... Full Article
