Thank you, this was fun to see. My first vague baseball memories are 1960-61, when I was 8-9; my memories of the '62 season and beyond are much stronger. I do remember the "asterisk" in the record books by Maris' name.
Here's a great profile by Roger Kahn in Sports Illustrated in October 1961 entitled "Pursuit of No. 60: The Ordeal of Roger Maris" during the lead-up before the record:
Also just to note, a great back catalogue of digitised articles and scanned editions from Sports Illustrated all the way back from the 50s available online...
Thanks for sharing this, Matt. So cool. The Mark Twain steamboat at the end was a nice cap off too.
Thank you, this was fun to see. My first vague baseball memories are 1960-61, when I was 8-9; my memories of the '62 season and beyond are much stronger. I do remember the "asterisk" in the record books by Maris' name.
Nice footage!
Here's a great profile by Roger Kahn in Sports Illustrated in October 1961 entitled "Pursuit of No. 60: The Ordeal of Roger Maris" during the lead-up before the record:
https://vault.si.com/vault/1961/10/02/pursuit-of-no-60-the-ordeal-of-roger-maris
Also just to note, a great back catalogue of digitised articles and scanned editions from Sports Illustrated all the way back from the 50s available online...