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A 12 page paper which examines the baseball player who, during his 12-year professional career, broke Babe Ruth’s record of 60 games in one season in 1961, but is still not a member of Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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File: TG15_TGmaris.rtf
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the air, and there seemed to be a sense of "renewal and hope" everywhere.1 The perennial baseball champions New York Yankees were undergoing a similar transformation. After losing
the 1960 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates, team ownership obviously felt a change was in order. Seventy-year-old manager and fan favorite Casey Stengel, along with his 65-year-old general
manager George Weiss, were swiftly replaced by the more youthful Ralph Houk and Roy Hamey.2 Unlike Stengel, Houk was interested in developing his younger players, rather than relegating them
to watching the games from the bench. This enabled some of the newer players who languished in the shadows of the veterans to take their place on the diamond
and in the spotlight. No one endured the glare or the burn of that spotlight more excruciatingly than the relatively unknown Roger Maris, the batter and right fielder who
had been acquired the previous season from the Kansas City Athletics. The fresh-faced, 26-year-old North Dakotan who wore uniform #9 was described as "the most typical ballplayer in the
world."3 But there was nothing typical about his solitary journey to baseball immortality. Roger Eugene Maras (he later changed the spelling of his surname) was born on September 10,
1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota. His Austrian grandfather had settled in the town north of Duluth and opened a tavern that became a popular watering hole for area miners.4
Mariss father worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad, and a few years later, would move the family, to the North Dakota towns of Grand Forks and then Fargo, which was
the town Roger Maris always lovingly referred to as home.5 In Fargo, both Roger and his older brother Rudy excelled in sports as students at Shanley High School.6
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