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Maris's single-season MLB home run record was broken by Mark McGwire, who hit 70 in 1998. [29] Barry Bonds set a new MLB record with 73 home runs in 2001. [59] Maris's home run mark was also surpassed by McGwire in 1999 (with 65) and by Sammy Sosa (with 66 in 1998, 63 in 1999, and 64 in 2001). [60]
Maris' league-wide record remained unbroken for 37 years until two National League players, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, both hit more than 62 home runs during the 1998 home run record chase, with McGwire ultimately setting the new record of 70, [12] [14] This record passed both Maris' American League record and the previous National League ...
McGwire crossing home plate on May 18, 1998 for his 17th home run of the season. Speculation on the potential of McGwire or Griffey breaking Roger Maris' home run record was a popular story heading into spring training, and was even promoted by MLB, in an effort to draw fans back to the game who felt disenfranchised by the 1994 strike that prematurely ended the season and led to the ...
Twenty-five years ago, baseball’s long-standing, single-season home run record — held by New York Yankees right fielder Roger Maris for his 61 home runs hit in 1961 — was about to be ...
In 1991, thirty years after Maris hit 61 home runs, commissioner Fay Vincent ruled that there be only one single-season home run record and that any notation beside Maris' record (denoting that he hit 61 home runs in a 162-game season) be eliminated. [24] Maris died six years earlier in 1985. [25] Thus, he never knew the record was his.
Aaron Judge finally broke Roger Maris' Yankees record Tuesday night against the Texas Rangers, putting an exclamation mark on his stellar 2022 season.
As it became apparent that Aaron Judge could break Roger Maris’ American League home run record, the baseball world focused on the outfielder’s quest. On Oct. 4, Judge hit a slider and made ...
June 25: Most home runs in a calendar month – 19 by Sammy Sosa (extended to 20 on June 30). September 8: Most home runs, season – 62 by Mark McGwire ; later extended to 70. Sosa also broke the 37-year-old record held by Roger Maris and was briefly the sole record-holder, hitting his 66th home run of the season (which would be his final ...