Isn't it ironic Roger Maris is now the baseball player least in need of an asterisk next to his name? Maris' 61-homer season of 1961 once was deemed in need ...
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Roger Maris's Misunderstood Quest to Break the Home Run Record
But the big one, the mother of all sports myths, is that an asterisk was placed besides Maris's name in the record books because Maris's season was eight games longer. David James Duncan describes it thus in his great novel, The Brothers K: In a ...
Listen: Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero
Everyone knows the story behind 1961 and the asterisk, but hear why drove Maris to become a great player from childhood. We discussed his relationship with ...
Roger Maris and the Myth of the Asterisk
Another myth Pepe tried to bust is the myth of the asterisk that was supposedly placed after Maris's accomplishment in the record books. Sunday's Daily News included an excerpt from 1961 in which Pepe states the case for the asterisk that never was. ...
Time to give Roger Maris another asterisk
Former commissioner Ford Frick once unfairly put an asterisk by Maris' record because he accomplished the feat in 162 games whereas Ruth hit 60 homers when ...
Roger Maris and Mark McGwire and the irony of the Asterisk
And that brings us to the *Asterisk*. McGwire said he didn't believe the PED's he took helped him hit home runs. But he does know they kept him on the field ...
Roger Maris' Career Was Ruined by Dick Young's Non-Existent Asterisk
Maris never lost his bitter feelings about an asterisk despite the fact that it was never used. That asterisk still ''bitters me up,'' Maris said. He felt that it made him a target. The journalists who had always been afraid to reveal how mean and ...
Could Jose Bautista replace Roger Maris as the asterisk-free Home Run King?
By Ben Shapiro Associated PressToronto Blue Jays' Jose Bautista runs out a two-RBI double off Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Rafael Perez during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Cleveland. Jose Bautista has 31 home runs ...
The Case Against Roger Maris*
The biggest myth of all regarding Maris is "The Asterisk." As Maris closed in on Ruth, the Commissioner of Baseball, Ford Frick, who had been a close friend of the late Bambino, suggested that some kind of qualifier would be needed if Maris didn't ...
Roger Maris: Why Is He Not in the Hall of Fame?
By Tony Violanti | June 22, 2011 8:14 AM EDT Baseball is a game built on history but as the 2011 season passes its summer solstice, the man who made history in 1961 now exists only in the shadow of an asterisk. The game seems to have forgotten one of ...
Standing up for the real Roger Maris
It was Dick Young of the New York Daily News who suggested to baseball commissioner Ford Frick that an asterisk be placed on a home run record that was set ...