Roger Maris

Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Mariswas an American professional baseball player who played four seasons in the minor leagues and twelve seasons in the major leagues. Maris played right field on four Major League Baseballteams, from 1957 through 1968...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth10 September 1934
CityHibbing, MN
exactly henry home mention radio rarely record talk
Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.
glad
We're just glad it's over, ... It's been a long process.
canadian-musician helluva home
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
open stupid today
We're too stupid to be open today ... come back when we're smarter.
planning win
You win not by chance, but by preparation.
uranium-mining zinc more-money
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
baseball fun headache
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.
baseball years play
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
new-york cities kansas-city
I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
player arms speed
I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.
running winning player
I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.
thinking games privacy
I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
running home records
Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.
baseball trying records
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.