Roger Maris at Bat
Autobiography
By: Roger Maris and Jim Ogle
Date: 1962
Source: Maris, Roger, and Jim Ogle. Roger Maris at Bat. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962.
About the Author: Roger Maris (1934–1985) was born in Hibbing, Minnesota, and grew up in North Dakota. He signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1953 and eventually wound up with the New York Yankees in 1960. In 1961, he set the modern major league baseball mark for home runs with sixty-one and won his second consecutive American League Most Valuable Player award. After five more seasons with the Yankees, he played two seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals before retiring in 1968 to Florida, where he operated a beer distributorship.
Introduction
For over thirty years, one of baseball's cherished records was Babe Ruth's sixty home runs in 1927, accomplished in a 154-game season. In 1961, with baseball's first...
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