Maris made a mark on the team even before it appeared he would break Ruth's long-standing record. He was traded to the Kansas City Athletics during the 1958 season and, in 1960, he was traded to the Yankees. In 1957 Maris was promoted to the major leagues, although he played only one season with the Indians. During his time in the minors, Maris changed the spelling of his name from "Maras" to avoid the taunts of opposing fans.
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By 1956 he had been promoted to the Class AA farm team in Indianapolis and helped carry the team to the Little World Series Championship. Playing in the Class C Northern League in 1953, Maris was named the league's Rookie of the Year and the following season was promoted to the Class B Three-eye League. He then opted to sign with a Cleveland Indians farm team. Upon graduation from high school in 1952 he considered playing football for the University of Oklahoma, but left the school during his entrance exam. He was named league Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1950. Maris was able to pick up a bat in the summer, though, when the American Legion ran a summer league. During his senior year he set a national high school record in football when he scored four touchdowns on returns in one game. At Fargo's Bishop Shanley High School Maris excelled in football, basketball and track. Growing up in North Dakota, it was never warm enough in spring to play baseball during the school year. Just a Summer Sportīaseball was not Maris' only sport. Although qualified by the infamous, and invisible, asterisk -a verbal mark on the record added by then-Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick to note that Maris had played a longer season than Ruth -the feat instantly rendered Maris a baseball legend. Louis Cardinals' Mark McGwire bested it in 1998. Maris' record remained unbroken for twenty-seven years, until the St.
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With that 61st homer, Maris broke professional baseball's single-season home run record, previously set by Babe Ruth in 1927.
In the last game of 1961, the New York Yankee hit his 61st home run of the season, entering Maris permanently into the baseball record books. Sixty-one must have been Roger Maris' lucky number.
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