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
leadership sports baseball
        Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
canadian-musician helluva home
        It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
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.
open stupid today
        We're too stupid to be open today ... come back when we're smarter.
canadian-musician
        Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.
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.