Roger Maris
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 Roger Maris facts

• Maris played right field on four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, from 1957 through 1968
• Maris set the MLB record for home runs during the 1961 season with 61, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs in 1927
• This record was challenged by then-baseball commissioner Ford Frick (who had been a friend of Babe Ruth), who said that Maris needed to break the record in 154 games instead of the current schedule of 162 games
• His accomplishment of 61 home runs in a season came back to the forefront in 1998, when the home run record was broken by Mark McGwire and later that same year by Sammy Sosa
• Maris began playing in the minor leagues in 1953
• He reached the major leagues in 1957 playing for the Cleveland Indians
• He was traded to the Kansas City Athletics during the 1958 season, and to the New York Yankees after the 1959 season
• He finished his MLB career playing for the St
• Louis Cardinals in 1967 and 1968
• Maris was an American League (AL) All-Star from 1959 through 1962, an AL Most Valuable Player in 1960 and 1961, and an AL Gold Glove Award winner in 1960