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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For 61 years, Roger Maris held the American League record for most home runs in a single season, with 61. The 3x AL MVP, Aaron Judge broke that record in 2022 edging Maris out with 62 dingers. Now ...
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 ...
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.
Earlier this week, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge said that he considered Barry Bonds to be the single-season home run record holder, not Roger Maris. Roger Maris Jr. isn’t too thrilled about that. Judge ...
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 ...
On Wednesday night, Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris for the all-time AL single-season home run record. But Maris’ son thinks that the two should be considered the record holders for MLB as a whole, given ...
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 ...
When Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris’s single-season home-run record in 1998, Maris’s family was a very visible presence at St. Louis’s Busch Stadium. After hitting homer No. 62, McGwire climbed into ...