Roger Maris was born on September 10, 1934. Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961. He was 26 years old in 1961.
It was the 1961 season. Roger Maris finished with 61 home runs and Mickey Mantle had 54 home runs.
That was 1961.
Mark Mcgwire hit 70 home runs in 1998, the year he broke Roger Maris' single season home run record of 61.
In 1961, the Yankees' left fielder hit 61 home runs to surpass Babe Ruth's 34-year-old record of 60.
1961
It was in 1961 - Roger Maris (61) and Mickey Mantle (54) totalled 115 homers, breaking the previous record of 107 home runs set in 1927 by Babe Ruth (60) and Lou Gehrig (47).
Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' record in 1998, when he hit 70 home runs.
Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' single season home run record of 61 in 1998. McGwire would finish the year with 70 home runs setting the new single season home run record. In 2001 Barry Bonds broke this record by hitting 73 home runs.
Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield, Jason Giambi, Roger Maris, and Babe Ruth. Dimaggio was one home run shy his rookie year.
Roger Maris woure uniform number 32, and 5 with the Cleveland Indians in 1957, and 1958. Roger Maris wore uniform number 35 during his first year with the KC Athletics in 1958, and he wore uniform number 3 in his second year in 1959. With the Yankees he wore uniform number 9 from 1960 -1966, and with St Louis in 1967 and 1968.
Ford Frick He was a close friend of, and ghost-writer for, Babe Ruth early in his career, so it is no surprise that Frick announced that Ruth and Maris would share the record for most home runs in a season. That decision was eventually ignored when people realized that Frick had no authority to list who held what record.
Roger Maris, Yankees, 61 HR/year. Hank Aaron, Atlanta Braves, 755 career.