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Left to right: Babe Ruth's 60th home run bat (1927), Roger Maris's 61st home run bat (1961), and Mark McGwire's and Sammy Sosa's 70th and 66th home run bats (1998) In 1961, the AL expanded from eight to ten teams. In the expansion draft, the newly created Los Angeles Angels and Washington Senators [b] were restricted to drafting players from AL ...
The season is best known for Yankee teammates Roger Maris' and Mickey Mantle's pursuit of Babe Ruth's prestigious 34-year-old single-season home run record of 60. Maris ultimately broke the record when he hit his 61st home run on the final day of the regular season, while Mantle was forced out of the lineup in late September due to a hip ...
The "M&M Boys" were the duo of New York Yankees baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who were teammates from 1960 to 1966. [a] They gained prominence during the 1961 season, when Maris and Mantle, batting third and cleanup (fourth) in the Yankee lineup respectively, both challenged Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season record of 60 ...
It helped the Yankees secure an 8-3 win.Judge’s shot drew him level with Maris’s American League record of 61 home runs in a single season, set in 1961. Maris broke fellow Yankee Babe Ruth’s ...
The 1961 season was notable for the race between center fielder Mickey Mantle and right fielder Roger Maris to break Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a season (set in 1927). Maris eventually broke the record, hitting his 61st home run on October 1, the season's final day.
60, by Ruth, New York (AL), 1927 (154-game schedule) Ruth hit more home runs in 1927 than any of the other seven American League teams. His closest rival was his teammate Lou Gehrig, who hit 47 homers that year. 61, by Roger Maris, New York (AL), 1961 (162-game schedule) Pushing Maris that year was teammate Mickey Mantle; slowed by an injury ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. [1] [2] [3] Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920.
It’s Judge, Maris (1961), and Babe Ruth (1927).” The Yankees brought in Roger Maris, Jr. for the games when his dad’s record could be broken. Hoch perfectly captures how the faithful all but ...