broken the season home run record. To the families of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, Maris ' 61 in 1961 remains the legitimate ..... also knowing that is arguable with a lot of people,'' Roger Maris Jr., said Saturday before the Yankees culminated a
Yankees, he was a Chicagoan through and through. I certainly will miss his priceless stories about Casey Stengel, Roger Maris , Hank Bauer and of course, his good friend, Mickey Mantle. ... My guess is that right now Mickey, Roger, Hank
truly amazing. Imagine if he hadn't missed more than 400 games with a variety of injuries through the years. 2. Roger Maris , Thurman Munson, Don Mattingly, Elston Howard and Spud Chandler. Alex Rodriguez, who won MVP for the Yanks in '05
residence in Queens with Roger Maris when Mickey Mantle ..... clear picture of Maris as a treasured teammate ..... what he did," said Roger Maris Jr. But, "he wasn't ..... never lived to see Maris ' record fall in ..... it's his record," Roger Maris Jr. said. "I think
something that can alter the statistics of the game, it's not good for the game.'' Rose wonders what Babe Ruth or Roger Maris would have to say about Bonds, Sosa and Mark McGwire being kept out of the Hall. ''Because those were the records
the Hall of Fame is an exclusive place where fairness does not always carry the day. How else to explain why the late Roger Maris was never voted in, despite breaking Ruth's home run record with 61, a mark that stood for 37 years before McGwire
flew off Sosa's bat and he dueled with McGwire to obliterate the single-season home run record held for so long by Roger Maris . And Houston fans surely tried to buy that Clemens finished with the best ERA of his career (1.87) at age 43 because
exile from the sport by admitting he took performance-enhancing drugs during his career, including when he broke Roger Maris ' record of 61 home runs with 70 long balls in 1998. He retired in 2001 with 583 career homers, ranking 10th on the
World Series despite hitting .198 in the postseason. The 1962 Yankees did as well, even though Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were a combined 7 for 48. Perhaps the most encouraging historical memory for the Yankees comes from another of their
should have done a long time ago - like take Barry Bonds' name off the top of the career home run list and restore Roger Maris as the legitimate single-season home run record holder. ''You can't change records because once you get into