JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2449
ROGER MARIS BREAKS BABE RUTH'S HOME RUN RECORD
New York City (JFK+50) Fifty-six years ago today, October 1, 1961, Babe Ruth's single season home run record was broken in Yankee Stadium here in the Big Apple by Roger Maris*.
Maris hit his 61st home run against Boston Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard in the final game of the season.
A controversy developed because Ruth hit his 60th in 154 games while Maris hit his 61st in 162 games. In 1991, Major League Baseball awarded Maris the record officially.
*Roger Eugene Maris (1934-1985) was born in Hibbing, Minnesota & was a star athlete in basketball & football in high school. REM signed a professional baseball contract with the Cleveland Indians & after being traded to Kansas City joined the New York Yankees in 1960.
REM was a star hitter alongside Mickey Mantle during the early 1960s. He was a 7 time all star. Maris died of complications of Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1985.
ROGER MARIS BREAKS BABE RUTH'S HOME RUN RECORD
New York City (JFK+50) Fifty-six years ago today, October 1, 1961, Babe Ruth's single season home run record was broken in Yankee Stadium here in the Big Apple by Roger Maris*.
Maris hit his 61st home run against Boston Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard in the final game of the season.
A controversy developed because Ruth hit his 60th in 154 games while Maris hit his 61st in 162 games. In 1991, Major League Baseball awarded Maris the record officially.
*Roger Eugene Maris (1934-1985) was born in Hibbing, Minnesota & was a star athlete in basketball & football in high school. REM signed a professional baseball contract with the Cleveland Indians & after being traded to Kansas City joined the New York Yankees in 1960.
REM was a star hitter alongside Mickey Mantle during the early 1960s. He was a 7 time all star. Maris died of complications of Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1985.
Roger Maris & JFK
Oval Office
April 27, 1962
Photo by Robert L. Knudsen
www.jfklibrary.org/*
*Maris met with the President as the co-chairman of the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society & autographed a baseball for the Society's annual fundraising appeal.
According to "Baseball Researcher", the President gave Maris a signed copy of his book Profiles In Courage while Maris gave the President a signed copy of his book Roger Maris at Bat.
That evening, April 27, 1962, Roger Maris hit his first HR of the 1962 season.
SOURCE
"JFK and Baseball", Baseball Researcher by Tom Shieber, April 3, 2015, www.baseballresearcher.blogspot.com/
