Roger Maris 1961 - 60th Home Run as Called by Mel Allen, WPIX-TV, 9/26/1961
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- Опубликовано: 14 дек 2011
- YanksAtShea is proud to present another of eleven videos highlighting the last ten home runs of Roger Maris's magic 61 home runs hit during the 1961 season breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record. Number 60 off of Baltimore's Jack Fisher was called by Mel Allen (had he only called #61 instead of red Barber) on this September evening in 1961. This is a true gem and Maris being called by the Yankee Stadium crowd from the dugout after the homer is a genuinely wonderful moment. Long live the REAL all-time single season home run king Roger Maris.
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I grew up idolizing Roger Maris. Not only was he a sensational ball player, he was a loyal, devoted family man and all around solid citizen.
Roger defines class.
The Single Season HR Record still belongs to #61, Roger Maris. And the All Time Home Run King is still #44, Hank Aaron. Roger Maris deserves to be in the Hall of Fame !
As much as I loved #9 Roger Maris, no way did he qualify for the HOF. Compare him with the great Don Mattingly, who had more excellent seasons than Roger did, yet still falls short of entrance to the Hall.
maris was so mis-understood and Under appreciated it is sick making , an icon who fell through the cracks but could n t shake an asterisk, damn you ford frick
Mel Allen was one of the first announcers that sounds just as modern as anyone today.
MEL ALLEN BEST ANNOUNCER THEN SECOND VIN SCULLY
I was at the games. Its was greatest moment in my lifetime ⚾️ in Baltimore md. Great roger maris.❤⚾️♥️⚾️
Imagine someone making baseball history yet being reluctant to come out of the dugout to receive the crowd's acclamation. The guy was certainly no show-off.
Growing up in Brooklyn I went to the Brooklyn Dodgers never liked the Yankees when the Dodgers left in 57 I used to go to the Yankee games by myself watch the include my mind 180 he was fantastic and great for baseball today he is a Class Act
Roger still has the seasonal HR record for the AL..It has lasted longer than Ruth's record...
Will end this year with ohtani!
Thanks, interesting.
@@emr6153 nope, will end this year with yours truly, Aaron fuckin Judge
@@emr6153 lol
@@johnbob993 facts lol
Roger Maris' home run record of 61 stands the true regular-season standard because I think McGwire's, Bond's, and Sosa's accomplishments are fraudulent. No questions need to be asked on this subject again until someone else does it.
This shows that fans were supportive of Maris. Didn't hear any boos but a standing ovation. Barber's call on 61 was way too understated. Allen chimed in to give some emotion. Wish Mel got to call that one.
+Steven Hamburg Phil Rizzuto would put a lot more feeling into it!!!! LOL!!!
+Steven Hamburg fans didn't turn against Maris until NY sports writers did hatchet job on him over the winter and following season (1962)
My Grandfather was there that night. He didn't like to brag about things so he never told me about it until a few years before he died. But I am bragging on his behalf.
2K16 Good for you, you bragg...I would too. Roger was a hell of a player as many of the Bronx Bombers of the past were. An era unfortunately gone, but remains timeless with these great Clips from back in those days. in 1961 I was 4 years old living as a young chubby little Italian bambino. My late Grandfather? ? was friends with the voice of the Yankees back then. Mel Allen. in fact I have some film of Mr. Allen at a past big family function my late grandfather would host. on occasion back in the city many, many years ago. Anyway glad to see you keep your family treasure alive as you do.
Awesome. Your Grandfather was there to see MLB history.
Everyone's grandfather was there. LOL.
@@w6467 Including me. It wasn't hard to get tickets for the game, only 28,000 or so in the park. Unless you wanted right field.
@@w6467 and grandmothers, uncles, aunts , cousins
The real single season home run leader.
Ruth is, 154 games vs 162 games.
@@ThekiBoran Judge has entered the chat.
@@GreekboyyD
Huh? All I see is me, you and Hawk 22.
As far as I am concerned Maris still holds the home run record when factoring in that McGuire, Bonds, and Sosa were on steroids
The crowd seemed much louder for 60 than 61. Added bonus Mel’s play by play. Red Barber to say the least was way too subdued for 61. Too bad Mel didn’t get that call. Although he does chime in.
As a young kid sitting behind the third base about 20 rows in I still remember sitting on my father's shoulders watching Maris running the bases after hitting his 61. Also the same when don Larsen pitched his perfect game in the world series. Guess I was lucky to have seen this in person
I seen Reggie hit his 3 homers against the dodgers and Chambliss hitting is game A L Championship Homer
He still holds the record for the most homeruns in a season. Those other 3 cheated.
This the crowd reaction I would have expected for 61, Yanks At Shea.
Mel Allen, the pride of Alabama Law School, did everything, including the Rose Bowl Game for many years
Mel Allen knew that thing was gone the moment Maris hit
Notice how Mel Allen knew it was a homer as soon as it left the bat. He didn't have time to call his usual "It's going...going...gone!" That was some season. I saw so many of those homers on NY WPIX 11 and No. 34 personally.
Keep it in the family. Judge has got this . Don’t like to see Rodgers record broken especially if Yankees don’t win the Championship.
What a great ball player Roger was...class act. He's still the single season Home Run King...steroid users don't count.
I agree with your comment 100%.
Roger Maris what a class act and nice person . RIP slugger. !!
Entirely correct.
One of the greatest players ever. Defensive star ⭐ as well
Aaron Judge then would be the home run king by this standard. But Roger was utterly brilliant.
Ford Frick attached an asterisk beside Maris' name after he hit his 61st home run on the last day of the 1961 season because he didn't want anybody to break Babe Ruth's single season record of 60 home runs which had stood since 1927, and if he did, he had to do it within the Yankees first 154 games because that's how many games there were in a season in 1927 before MLB expanded the season to 162 starting in '61. Thankfully MLB wised up and removed the asterisk from Maris' name and awarded him the new single season record holder.
That asterisk thing is a myth which never happened. The official baseball records never showed one. Commissioner Frick favored applying some indication of the 162 vs. 154 game season differential, but the press hyped his comments until they became misrepresented in the public’s mind.
Frick was a friend of Ruth's, so you figure that had to be a factor.
the greatest yankee team ever better then the 1927 Yankees. it was a shame how the fans hated roger. they wanted mickey to break the babe" record. maris was so underrated as a right fielder. he died to young
one of my heroes nevertheless.
No one has beaten him "clean" yet.
I have the restored/reimaged video of Red Barber calling #61 and it's right here on my RUclips YanksAtShea channel. And Red Barber called #61 on WPIX-TV, not #60. As you can hear on this video Mel Allen called it.
And Rizzuto's radio call has been placed under a motion picture-one camera shot of the 61st, not TV film.
Screw Major League baseball and their damn asterisk. They waited until he was dead to remove it.Big friggin` deal.
too bad the babe wasn't still around, he would have been just 66 and he could have taken a lot of pressure off roger just by being there and congratulating him, as much as they cheered maris he was constantly badgered by baseball "purists". i imagine the babe would have said something like, (on 61) "if it had to be broken, i'm glad it was a yankee." and who wouldn't want to hear the babe discuss the difference between "then and now"?
Ruth's widow was still alive when Hank Aaron hit Number 715, and she remarked that if the Babe were still alive, he would have been rooting louder than anyone else for Aaron to break it.
IMO they should have two sets of HR records. One for a 154 game season and one for a 162 game season
Mel Allen on the call.
How 'bout that!
Can't tell from unclear picture but i recall the ball bouncing on the field but i can't recall what deck the ball landed in even though i was sitting in right field that day. I thought the ball landed in the 3rd deck. Can someone tell me what deck?
It was in the upper deck..
4th deck
Was this the first curtain call?
IMO Ruth is till the record holder. He hit 60 HR in 154 games, and it took Maris an extra 8 games to break that record. And if you break it down even more the final 8 games of the previous season Ruth hit 5 HRs bringing his total over a 162 game span to 65HRs. However if you take the season after the 60 HR season, Ruth only hit 1 HR in the first 8 games tying him with Maris through 162 games with 61 HRs. In any case Maris is still a legend.
Nobody ever complains about any other batting, pitching, or fielding record being broken after the 162 game schedule was instituted, just the single-season home run record. Why don't those all get asterisks, too? There are still 154 game season records that have yet to be broken. When they're broken, should the new records be denigrated as well? The game constantly evolves. Ruth played when he played. Maris played when he played. The record is the single-season home run record, period, and Maris set a new record, no ifs, ands, or buts - and no asterisks.
It's a single season record. No matter how many games were played. Period. Ruth broke it with 154 game. But the guy who had the record before him had less games. Why did it matter now? It was ALL Bs
Buddy Roger maris hit home-run no.60 in 154 games.
Also too. I was there.⚾️⚾️⚾️
Nobody could say the name Mickey Mantle like Mel Allen; how about that!!!
Or Bob Sheppard
How about that
Why didn't Mel Allen call Maris' 61st HR? Timing is everything in life, including baseball and sports announcing. By the time Allen gave way to Red Barber in the announcer's booth, history was made on the field. To Red Barber and WPIX-TV, number 61 was worth $500 to a lucky Yankees viewer, via a contest held at the time. How cheap.
Celluloidwatcher no $5,000 for the ball. A lot of money in 1961.
You're right. I apologize. I forgot the extra 0. That $5,000 ball would be worth, at least, over $2.8 million, more or less, today.
The Ad after this takes all the joy of this great moment in sports ad with Michael rappaport what a differences in human beings from Marris to Rappaport he is not at all funny
Now they round the bases throwing their hats and sticking their tongues out.
Glad to have been alive when dignity was valued and hot-dogging was bad behaviour
It's 1961..........and the geniuses decided to film in black and white? For a moment like this? They did the same thing with #61, too.
This was a television broadcast, not a film. In 1961, virtually all American TV was in black and white.
@@TheRealLaughingGravy I get it, but when you are sitting around the board room, they should have went with color on a separate reel or track. But 1961, yeah, a b/w world then.
CCOYS
How much space does space does Steinbrenner's plaque, statue, and bust take up in THE SECOND HOUSE THAT RUTH built?
I never bought a ticket to see Steinbrenner, but his ego always provided an OBSTUCTED VIEW of the game I wanted to watch..."How about that..."
Lets get rid of George "the BUST" Steinbrenner and make room for George "the BABE" Ruth.
BRING BABE BACK TO THE BRONX. (April 18...The Stadiums 90th Birthday)...
I guess Mel Allen never heard of a curtain call. How about THAT?
Not back then,there was no curtain call
Now only the seventh highest total in a season.
***** Roger's was enhanced by a short right field. Baseball playing conditions are not standard.
In my book, STILL the highest ever!
The measurements were 296 feet to the right field foul line, 344 feet to straight away right, 407 feet to right center, 461 feet to straight away center, 457 feet to left center, 402 feet to straight away left, and 301 feet down the left field foul line.
Roger Maris was a pull hitter and almost all his home runs were hit to right or right center. However, the home run splits in his two MVP years .1960-1961, do not indicate that he got an obvious benefit from hitting in the old Yankee Stadium with the very short dimensions to right field. In 1961 he hit 31 of his record 61 home runs on the road.
In 1960 he hit 26 of his 39 home runs on the road.
Then explain why Maris hit more homers on the road during his years with the Yankees.
@@thomaswolf723 Mantle hit a great number of 450 ft. outs to center field.