Mark McGwire hits home run no. 62, and vindication for Maris' record is pardoned by MLB's 1991 decision to uphold his 61 single-season home run record.
indeed he was but unfortunately he didn't really play dat long he was only in da big show for about 12 years, had several injuries. It's not just two amazing Yankee seasons dat can get a guy into Cooperstown, u have 2 be extremely consistent for more than 10-15 years. Probably won't get into Cooperstown but no doubt a class act who left his footstep in baseball forever in 1961.
When I think of other players who got in, such as Hack Wilson, I think a good argument could be made for Roger Maris. He did have 2 MVPs and World Series rings with 2 different teams. You may have some valid points, but I am also biased. By the way I am not a Yankees fan.
yeah you're rite there could be a good argument for Maris after all there was some debate on players similar 2 Wilson. Didn't know u studied baseball history a lot, so do I.
I am an Athletics fan. I have been for 39 years. I tell Yankee fans to look at the Athletics and admire them, because some of them will most likely play for the Yankees in a few years. This is true now as it was over 50 years ago, after all, Roger Maris was an Athletic before he was a Yankee.
besides Aaron's status as a folk hero is no doubt real because he came from da lowest part of society and went on 2 greatness more than anyone could imagine. It'll be sad whenever he physically leaves da world.
Maris did it. After all these years, Maris is the one. My grandfather told me, Maris was the most complete player ever. Only Carl Ripken Jr. comes close.
Here after Aaron Judge broke the record tonight. I despise the Yankees, but LOVE Roger Maris. He and I have some similarities, not baseball but in life. Both of us were the target of ridicule because we didn't fit in. I was picked on a LOT in high school because I held myself to a different standard than what went on at my private, Christian high school (shame I have to say that but it's true). Maris was the object of ridicule because he didn't fit in with "The Yankee Way." He's one of my heroes and it's sad to see the record fall, but if anybody deserved to be the one to break it, it's Aaron Judge. Guy carries himself in a way few nowadays do.
Baseball is a story. It’s timeless. Part of the story is the great achievements by players who didn’t have or had to overcome obstacles. It’s part of the story and ignore the asterisks, just sit down with your bud with a hot dog and a beer and talk about the game we all love.
Of all the men who hit 60 or more home runs in a year, Roger Maris has the fewest strikeouts for the year. He had more RBIs than Bonds did, fewer plate appearances than Ruth, as far as McGwire and Sosa are concerned, Maris's year looks better. Maris and Ruth are the only 2 to go on to get World Series rings during their year. Maris is also the only one who faced a hostile crowd at home. Roger was Catholic, and so am I, but no I am not going to write the Pope and request he be made a Saint. LOL
You gotta wonder if these juice heads didn't take over the game in the 90's would anybody have been able to hit that 62 HR mark to this day? IMO probably not. Also man what a sad ending. Maris passed on before he knew he truly was the real single season HR king. This was a great flick though. Not a Yankee fan but I definitely respect the history of the franchise and it's many legendary players.
ManMonkey600 I think someone will eventually hit 62 legit. Especially with the way the balls are now. Giancarlo Stanton hit 59 his MVP year and Judge hit 52 that same year, so people have come close. Don’t forget they also spent time on the IL that year I believe
The night mark mcgwire hit 62 was my 19th birthday. I got to watch that with my godfather who I'm sure was following the home run chase in 61... I will never forget that evening
Big Mac showed a lot of class. I remember watching him. The pressure was on him and it showed. Roger Maris owns the record! It’s those clutch moments in sports that make greatness. Bill Mazeroski and Kirk Gibson are proof of that. ♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸
definitely agreed good thing about Pujols never did any kind of steroids just goes and plays his heart out but McGwire cheated and made da Cardinals look bad, what a total disgrace he was !!!!!!
In St. Louis most of us still like him because he apologized and later became the Cardinals hitting coach for 3 seasons. I don't think he made the Cardinals organization as a whole look bad because it was just himself doing it.
JB Scott If you want to go down that road then I think a team like the O's looked bad when the Mitchell Report came out because several ex or current players were on the list.
yeah but all I was saying was u made a good point one player doesn't make a whole team look bad but yeah some of those O's players should've known better.
it doesnt matter if you hate the yankees or not. Roger Maris is one of those players who you cant help but like, same thing goes for players like jeter, chipper, mariano rivera, mantle, ripken, griffey, and ichiro. and there are many more. But mcquire, sosa, and bonds were a disgrace to the game I love so much.
Never thought the Yankee organization treated Rodger Maris well thru his tenure and all his injuries with them. Glad he got to finish his career with the Cardinals and play in two more World Series and be an integral part of a World Series winner. Also after his career was over August Busch set Rodger up with a Beer distribution business. That’s how you take care of faithful employees!
What a lot people fail to realize is that baseball needed this. They may have even engineered it by telling opposing teams to throw Mac and Sammy grapefruits so that people would tune in to watch, go to the ball parks and spend money. This happened only 4 years after the strike and MLB was still suffering lost revenue.
@creighton3333 That's right! Maris did it without being "juiced." I'm glad Fay Vincent put the asterisk BS to rest. Ford Frick was a jerk for trying to marginalize what Roger Maris did. I'm a lifelong Pirate fan and one of my proudest moments was the 1960 Pirates beating the Mantle & Maris Yankees. But Mantle and Maris were magic, one-of-a-kind men. One of my proudest possessions is my original Mantle/Maris Topps baseball card from '61.
True. Also that relievers were not used widespread until the 1970s meaning Maris got to face the same pitcher 4-5x a night increasing his chances to make better contact. It’s just part of the story. But modern hitters only get 2-3x to face the pitcher before a reliever with different stuff, arm angle and velocity comes in. McGuire and Bonds cheated yes but every generation of ball players have had obstacles impacting their ability to succeed. It’s part of baseballs never ending story.
Its interesting that when you think about it, we view Maris as the "true home run champion" and therefore do not accept Mcgwire, Sosa and Bonds based on steriods. In 1961 many fans and writers still believed that Ruth was the "true home run champion" based on the fact that Ruth hit 60 home runs in 154 games and Maris hit 61 in 162 games. Im not saying its right or wrong, i just find it interesting that history repeats itself.
This touching moment is brought to you by Safeway,the official supermarket and grocery store sponsor of the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Safeway used to have their logo on the scoreboards at the Oakland- Alameda County Coliseum and Candlestick Park, and now at AT&T Park, the ballparks that Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds played their home games in for those teams. Safeway has always had a red curvy-shaped capital S inside of a giant red circle for their logo, kind of like a huge target. It was perfect for steroid users like Mark, Jose Canseco, and Barry to hit! Talk about a damaged childhood for a diehard Bay Area baseball fan! Roger, rest in peace, that record's yours. Henry Aaron, stop giving Barry credit, and take it! Oh, what a shame, what a shame, what a shame!
+alonzomourning33 sorry those guys had 2 damage your childhood memories no worries those guys will never go anywhere near Cooperstown. Maris coulda had a chance for Cooperstown but it's not just one MVP year which gets u in if he had more seasons like 1961 probably coulda happened.
+DMR4736 Cal Ripken's consecutive game streak will be even tougher than that one. Miguel Tejada ended his around, what the hell was it....... 1500-something games? Maybe not even. No one has come close to THAT one. But of all the old time records still intact, yes, Joe D's 56-game Hit Streak will be the toughest one to conquer.
well it was just how records were kept separate until 1991 is all till Fay Vincent how a season is a season, so in a sense he knew he had his record but it was part from Babe's is all. Today he now truly holds it though Stanton might make a fair run for it.
They started this video at the stupidest time. Why didn’t they start it when Roger says “you would have did it too Mick”. ?!?!? 8 seconds earlier lol. ?!?
Shemsdawg1, i agree wholeheartedly. McGwire nor Bonds should not even be mentioned in the same sentence as Roger Maris. This record belongs to Roger Maris, pure and simple
What a shame that billy crystal decided to show a cheater like McGwire supposedly “breaking” Roger’s record. Roger was a class act! McGwire? Not so much I’m afraid.
lol I remember it being some profound shit! almost 25 years later sounds like dude didn't know what thee hell to say and came up with a lame emphatic speech. hahaha
Steroids or not, Still have to hit the fuckin ball. Quit saying steroids did it all. And back in 1998 he was tested for Steroids and popped negative, What he took WAS legal then but isnt now. His record will ALWAYS stand In my eyes.
But steroids can certainly turn plenty of fly outs just short of the warning track into home runs. I’ve legally been prescribed and taken steroids and played baseball with them, they make a huge difference. I needed to take them to help my metabolism after a major surgery and my home runs skyrocketed. Steroids help extremely, speaking from a first person perspective. Mark, Sammy, Barry, A-Rod and all others feel great guilt for what they did, no matter how they try to act tough and persistent, they and I know deep Down, it helped us accomplish what we did and we couldn’t without them.
He tested negative because his protocol made it impossible for the MLB to detect, the same thing happened to A-Rod and manny, they been taking a PED protocol for years but the MLB could never catch them in the act because it was always out of their system by the time the mlb tested them, that was until changes were made to look for bio markers, and on top of that, Manny more than likely screwed up his protocol and as a result the MLB finally detected trace amounts of the PED’s he had been taking over the years. Also your argument that he tested negative for PED’s in 1998, is irrelevant, because Jose Canseco literally named him as one of the many guys who he cited he either gave PED’s to, or was doing PED’s. So yeah, McGwire definitely did it.
"You're a good man Roger". Wow what a great line from Mickey.
Bob Sheppard's narration at the end is chilling, beautiful and sad.
Roger, you belong in Cooperstown! You were a class act.
indeed he was but unfortunately he didn't really play dat long he was only in da big show for about 12 years, had several injuries. It's not just two amazing Yankee seasons dat can get a guy into Cooperstown, u have 2 be extremely consistent for more than 10-15 years. Probably won't get into Cooperstown but no doubt a class act who left his footstep in baseball forever in 1961.
When I think of other players who got in, such as Hack Wilson, I think a good argument could be made for Roger Maris. He did have 2 MVPs and World Series rings with 2 different teams. You may have some valid points, but I am also biased. By the way I am not a Yankees fan.
yeah you're rite there could be a good argument for Maris after all there was some debate on players similar 2 Wilson. Didn't know u studied baseball history a lot, so do I.
I am an Athletics fan. I have been for 39 years. I tell Yankee fans to look at the Athletics and admire them, because some of them will most likely play for the Yankees in a few years. This is true now as it was over 50 years ago, after all, Roger Maris was an Athletic before he was a Yankee.
indeed it's true
I got chills when Bob's voice came in.
True - everyone knows 61 is the real record. And Aaron's 755
besides Aaron's status as a folk hero is no doubt real because he came from da lowest part of society and went on 2 greatness more than anyone could imagine. It'll be sad whenever he physically leaves da world.
You’re damn right!
I think that’s a universally accepted truth despite what MLB says
Maris did it. After all these years, Maris is the one. My grandfather told me, Maris was the most complete player ever. Only Carl Ripken Jr. comes close.
Carl Ripken? I didn't know Cal had another brother besides Billy. Lol.
Here after Aaron Judge broke the record tonight. I despise the Yankees, but LOVE Roger Maris. He and I have some similarities, not baseball but in life. Both of us were the target of ridicule because we didn't fit in. I was picked on a LOT in high school because I held myself to a different standard than what went on at my private, Christian high school (shame I have to say that but it's true). Maris was the object of ridicule because he didn't fit in with "The Yankee Way." He's one of my heroes and it's sad to see the record fall, but if anybody deserved to be the one to break it, it's Aaron Judge. Guy carries himself in a way few nowadays do.
The record still belongs to Maris.
For a few more days but yes. judge bout to hit 62
great movie great actimg
Ironically, Maris' record should be the only one without an asterisk. His was achieved post integration and pre steroids.
Baseball is a story. It’s timeless. Part of the story is the great achievements by players who didn’t have or had to overcome obstacles. It’s part of the story and ignore the asterisks, just sit down with your bud with a hot dog and a beer and talk about the game we all love.
@@Capt_Pete_Mitchell Right is all about talking shit and contradicting the last comment!
Talk about a huge coward McGwire is
You’re a huge fraud McGwire
Steroids DO NOT help you with hand eye coordination so get over it the records STAND AS THEY ARE SCUM no asterisk NONE mad whore?😍😍😍
Of all the men who hit 60 or more home runs in a year, Roger Maris has the fewest strikeouts for the year. He had more RBIs than Bonds did, fewer plate appearances than Ruth, as far as McGwire and Sosa are concerned, Maris's year looks better. Maris and Ruth are the only 2 to go on to get World Series rings during their year. Maris is also the only one who faced a hostile crowd at home. Roger was Catholic, and so am I, but no I am not going to write the Pope and request he be made a Saint. LOL
Maris had 698 plate appearances when he hit 61. Ruth had 691 when he hit 60. But that's irrelevant. Maris is the single season home run king.
You gotta wonder if these juice heads didn't take over the game in the 90's would anybody have been able to hit that 62 HR mark to this day? IMO probably not. Also man what a sad ending. Maris passed on before he knew he truly was the real single season HR king. This was a great flick though. Not a Yankee fan but I definitely respect the history of the franchise and it's many legendary players.
ManMonkey600 I think someone will eventually hit 62 legit. Especially with the way the balls are now. Giancarlo Stanton hit 59 his MVP year and Judge hit 52 that same year, so people have come close. Don’t forget they also spent time on the IL that year I believe
Very glad that this was posted!!!
00:57 That hits me hard every time I watch it.
Who's here after Aaron Judge tied his record?
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The night mark mcgwire hit 62 was my 19th birthday. I got to watch that with my godfather who I'm sure was following the home run chase in 61... I will never forget that evening
Big Mac showed a lot of class. I remember watching him. The pressure was on him and it showed. Roger Maris owns the record! It’s those clutch moments in sports that make greatness. Bill Mazeroski and Kirk Gibson are proof of that. ♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸
That was a great movie.
Huge Roger Maris fan. Pure baseball.
Big Mac was my hero growing up for awhile. Then Albert Pujols. Roger Maris should still have the record.
definitely agreed good thing about Pujols never did any kind of steroids just goes and plays his heart out but McGwire cheated and made da Cardinals look bad, what a total disgrace he was !!!!!!
In St. Louis most of us still like him because he apologized and later became the Cardinals hitting coach for 3 seasons. I don't think he made the Cardinals organization as a whole look bad because it was just himself doing it.
+John Hough good point
JB Scott If you want to go down that road then I think a team like the O's looked bad when the Mitchell Report came out because several ex or current players were on the list.
yeah but all I was saying was u made a good point one player doesn't make a whole team look bad but yeah some of those O's players should've known better.
it doesnt matter if you hate the yankees or not. Roger Maris is one of those players who you cant help but like, same thing goes for players like jeter, chipper, mariano rivera, mantle, ripken, griffey, and ichiro. and there are many more. But mcquire, sosa, and bonds were a disgrace to the game I love so much.
ROGER AND HANK... PERIOD!
Honestly when I think of records that all that pops in my head
Never thought the Yankee organization treated Rodger Maris well thru his tenure and all his injuries with them. Glad he got to finish his career with the Cardinals and play in two more World Series and be an integral part of a World Series winner. Also after his career was over August Busch set Rodger up with a Beer distribution business. That’s how you take care of faithful employees!
Great vid. Seems like today's baseball doesn't have the same luster it used to. Guess it's like everything else.
That’s because players can’t use PEDs anymore
What a lot people fail to realize is that baseball needed this. They may have even engineered it by telling opposing teams to throw Mac and Sammy grapefruits so that people would tune in to watch, go to the ball parks and spend money. This happened only 4 years after the strike and MLB was still suffering lost revenue.
Great film
Underrated
Maris held the record for 61 years until Aaron Judge and no one can tell me different.
And now another Yankee, Aaron Judge, is chasing the true record.
He just tied him tonight.
Mark...what a fraud.
Remember like it was yesterday watching McGuire chase it.
@creighton3333 That's right! Maris did it without being "juiced." I'm glad Fay Vincent put the asterisk BS to rest. Ford Frick was a jerk for trying to marginalize what Roger Maris did. I'm a lifelong Pirate fan and one of my proudest moments was the 1960 Pirates beating the Mantle & Maris Yankees. But Mantle and Maris were magic, one-of-a-kind men. One of my proudest possessions is my original Mantle/Maris Topps baseball card from '61.
Maguire and Bonds needed "help" to beat Maris and Aaron.
True. Also that relievers were not used widespread until the 1970s meaning Maris got to face the same pitcher 4-5x a night increasing his chances to make better contact. It’s just part of the story. But modern hitters only get 2-3x to face the pitcher before a reliever with different stuff, arm angle and velocity comes in. McGuire and Bonds cheated yes but every generation of ball players have had obstacles impacting their ability to succeed. It’s part of baseballs never ending story.
@@Capt_Pete_Mitchell bingo
Its interesting that when you think about it, we view Maris as the "true home run champion" and therefore do not accept Mcgwire, Sosa and Bonds based on steriods. In 1961 many fans and writers still believed that Ruth was the "true home run champion" based on the fact that Ruth hit 60 home runs in 154 games and Maris hit 61 in 162 games. Im not saying its right or wrong, i just find it interesting that history repeats itself.
This touching moment is brought to you by Safeway,the official supermarket and grocery store sponsor of the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Safeway used to have their logo on the scoreboards at the Oakland- Alameda County Coliseum and Candlestick Park, and now at AT&T Park, the ballparks that Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds played their home games in for those teams. Safeway has always had a red curvy-shaped capital S inside of a giant red circle for their logo, kind of like a huge target. It was perfect for steroid users like Mark, Jose Canseco, and Barry to hit! Talk about a damaged childhood for a diehard Bay Area baseball fan! Roger, rest in peace, that record's yours. Henry Aaron, stop giving Barry credit, and take it! Oh, what a shame, what a shame, what a shame!
+alonzomourning33 sorry those guys had 2 damage your childhood memories no worries those guys will never go anywhere near Cooperstown. Maris coulda had a chance for Cooperstown but it's not just one MVP year which gets u in if he had more seasons like 1961 probably coulda happened.
one thing we all know for sure is, no one will ever break Joe D's streak of 56
DMR4736 it can be possible but you may be rite on what you're saying. I just hope if someone does break dat whoever does it will do it cleanly.
+DMR4736 Cal Ripken's consecutive game streak will be even tougher than that one. Miguel Tejada ended his around, what the hell was it....... 1500-something games? Maybe not even. No one has come close to THAT one. But of all the old time records still intact, yes, Joe D's 56-game Hit Streak will be the toughest one to conquer.
indeed
MLB's most unbreakable record is Walter Johnson's shutouts.
“It was you, Raj”
I believe the last line "never knowing the record was his" was wrong I think he knew he had, especially when Mantel told him that in the hospital
well it was just how records were kept separate until 1991 is all till Fay Vincent how a season is a season, so in a sense he knew he had his record but it was part from Babe's is all. Today he now truly holds it though Stanton might make a fair run for it.
JB Scott or Aaron Judge.
They started this video at the stupidest time. Why didn’t they start it when Roger says “you would have did it too Mick”. ?!?!? 8 seconds earlier lol. ?!?
Mark McGwire is a bum
2:22 you didn't not touch it with your heart you lied to Rodgers family and fans. And most of all to the sport no respect for you
That homerun record should go back to maris. Not that juicer
The record should be 61 by roger Maris I loved McGwire and bonds however they cheated pure and simple they should be stripped and discredited
agreed 100% !!!!!
Shemsdawg1, i agree wholeheartedly. McGwire nor Bonds should not even be mentioned in the same sentence as Roger Maris. This record belongs to Roger Maris, pure and simple
amen Shane !!!!!!
And this moment is brought to you by BALCO.
P!$$ on Mr. HGH, McGwire. He was never the man Roger Maris was.
What a shame that billy crystal decided to show a cheater like McGwire supposedly “breaking” Roger’s record. Roger was a class act! McGwire? Not so much I’m afraid.
To be fair this was released 2001 before the steroid scandal broke.
Now Aaron judge surpassed Roger maris
@creighton3333 amen to that. couldn't agree more
@creighton3333 I wish I could thumbs up 1000 times buddy...
no, mark 🥱 you’re bat will not lie next to Rogers, because you tried to swindle your way into history 😠🤮 but, we caught onto you🤨
2:05 fakest most ridiculous speech of all time..
"I touched it with my heart" Yeah Mark whatever...
lol I remember it being some profound shit! almost 25 years later sounds like dude didn't know what thee hell to say and came up with a lame emphatic speech. hahaha
Him and Sosa were both frauds
Yes.. far more complete than Willie Mays. Or Carl Ripken.
Grwat movie, bad history
Sad that the record fell to a steroid using cheater.
Steroids or not, Still have to hit the fuckin ball. Quit saying steroids did it all. And back in 1998 he was tested for Steroids and popped negative, What he took WAS legal then but isnt now. His record will ALWAYS stand In my eyes.
But steroids can certainly turn plenty of fly outs just short of the warning track into home runs. I’ve legally been prescribed and taken steroids and played baseball with them, they make a huge difference. I needed to take them to help my metabolism after a major surgery and my home runs skyrocketed. Steroids help extremely, speaking from a first person perspective. Mark, Sammy, Barry, A-Rod and all others feel great guilt for what they did, no matter how they try to act tough and persistent, they and I know deep Down, it helped us accomplish what we did and we couldn’t without them.
He tested negative because his protocol made it impossible for the MLB to detect, the same thing happened to A-Rod and manny, they been taking a PED protocol for years but the MLB could never catch them in the act because it was always out of their system by the time the mlb tested them, that was until changes were made to look for bio markers, and on top of that, Manny more than likely screwed up his protocol and as a result the MLB finally detected trace amounts of the PED’s he had been taking over the years. Also your argument that he tested negative for PED’s in 1998, is irrelevant, because Jose Canseco literally named him as one of the many guys who he cited he either gave PED’s to, or was doing PED’s. So yeah, McGwire definitely did it.
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