Mickey Mantle: The 1961 Home Run Race with Roger Maris
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2009
- Mickey Mantle talks about his 1961 home run race with Roger Maris. Excerpted from the award-winning program, Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes To Life®. Available on DVD at 1-800-THE MICK / www.themick.com.
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This HR race was the greatest baseball thrill of my life. It's significance has not dimmed with the passage of time. And, true, it was an honest display of talent, unlike the horrible hitting records done later by the big, muscled up, steroid filled mercenaries.
61 in '61 is still the REAL record! I was 7 years old in '61 and I got a "Roger Maris" bat after that. We played sand lot and everyone wanted to use that bat!!!
This kinda of player is a thing of the past.........its now all about the flash and the cash......being born in the late 70s.....i was robbed of ever witnessing the true heart and game of baseball!!!!!
i could listen to this man tell old stories for about a week straight & not grow tired of it. thanks for posting these.
The separate single-season home run records remained until Nineteen
Ninety-One, when Fay Vincent, the commissioner of baseball, ordered that
there be only one record. Roger Maris died six years earlier, never
knowing that the record belonged to him.
It all Started in 1961 for me. I am from New Orleans and I am a dedicated Saints and Hornets fan. How sad it is we have no Pro Baseball team here. So in 1961 I was 6 years old. The Yankees were my team. Years have gone by and I can still recall the whole starting line-up. Now I also had the pleasure of watching the 1 baseball game shown on NBC once a week with Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese. What a trip. Watching that whole HR race between the M & M boys was something special.
MLB owes Roger Maris and his family a BIG APOLOGY. Here was a man scrutinized by the Commissioner of baseball back in '61,news papers berated him,and the fans,well if today there was a guy with 75 dingers and he needed 1 more to break steroid Bonds record,there would be a full stadium.Roger had about 20,000 in a stadium that held 80,000....All he did was drink some beer and do pull ups and sit ups..
A true gentleman!
Yep to the Hall and give Roger his record back (Bud Selig needs to make things right for the best interested of baseball)/ Yep to the Hall again)
Love the M&M boys too and love the candy too!
Wish I were 40 OR YOUNGER!! But one thing I remember was the last couple of games as I listened on the radio (I couldn't pick up New York TV where I lived) CBS would break into their network show every time Roger Maris came to the plate so I got to see him hit no. 61 live on TV. I think they were offering 5,000 dollars for the baseball to be returned to the dugout if Roger hit one & the young man who caught it did take it down so Roger & the team could have the baseball.
I am 40, so I didn't get to live through that great race. I bet it must've been a lot of fun. I miss fun baseball.
Wish we could get a fun race in baseball again, one that we would all give a crap about. The best part about baseball was always the stories and history. Is baseball really making any history the past ten years?
@vitorbelfort Whats a greenie?Stick em' caps?
@CircaMay85 I may have not liked Griffey at one point, being a Jays fan...but I came to like him and am sad to see him go!
Where have you gone..........
Boy howdy, you're absolutely right.
@mannyrama But what people are forgetting about are the many seasons that Griffey came close to these records Without the use of steroids ... so i wish people would stop putting his name in that slot....
@6Ott7 Why is it harder to hit a ball these days the pitchers then had alot more different pitches which made for a better game not just curve,fast ball,and this shit about greenies is crap.can you explain how they gave people power or made them stronger HGH has put a good 100lbs on these guys today they all do em??
Maris belongs in the Hall. There's no excuse for it. It's bullshit. The Rock n Roll HOF is lame too.
Do people not realize Mickey Mantle's career ending short due to him having amphetamines injected into his muscles ?
haha i agree that this was the best homerun race ever, but to say there was no chemical assistance is just ignorant son. Ever heard of greenies? clearly you havent.