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After Roger retired from baseball, he owned and operated an Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship with his brother Rudy and raised his six children with his wife Patricia. On July 22, 1984, in a ceremony in Yankee Stadium, the Yankees retired Roger's number (#9) and erected a plaque in his honor paying tribute to his achievements.
Most of Roger and Patricia A. Maris’s children have a private life away from the media. With their low profile, there is very little known about their lives and whereabouts. Patricia and Roger’s Married Life. Roger and her wife were together for almost three decades.
Maris' brother Rudolph, who was a year older, developed polio at age 18 in 1951. [8] Maris' parents had a turbulent marriage and divorced in 1960. The Maris family moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 1938, and to Fargo, North Dakota, in 1946. [7] Maris entered Fargo Central High School in 1948.
Aside from playing for the Yankees, winning MVP awards, and World Series championships, Maris was also a family man. Six children of Roger and Patricia Maris also were recognized in school...
Roger Maris with his wife Pat and two of their children, Roger Jr. and Susan, May 1961.
The event also saluted Mickey Mantle 's 54 homers in 1961, and among those attending were Maris' wife, Pat, and six children; two of Mantle's sons; and 1961 Yankees Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Moose...
In spite of several transfusions, Roger succumbed on Dec. 14, 1985, with wife Pat at his bedside. It was on the exact day Elston Howard had died five years earlier, also at the age of 51.
Roger Maris, left, the New York Yankee home run slugger, is a proud father in Los Angeles, August 22, 1961, as he displays a photo of his wife and brand new baby boy to his roommate, Bob Cerv.
I have enormous respect for Pat Maris as a wife who supported Roger during the difficult 1961 season and how she not only kept the family together but was highly responsible for raising 4...
In St. Mary's now, near the coffin, were Maris's immediate family: Pat, and their six children - four boys and two girls - ranging in age from 28 to 20.