Roger Maris
By: Trenton Dufner
Childhood
- Born on September 10, 1934 in Hibbing, M.N.
- Roger went to Bishop Stanley High School in Fargo, North Dakota
- His father worked fro the Great Northern Railroad
- In 1942 Roger's family moved to North Dakota
- Roger played baseball as well as football
- In his sophomore year he met his future wife, Patricia
- During the summer he played in the American Legion program
- Roger led his American Legion team to the State Championship
- In one game Roger returned four kickoffs
- He had an older brother named Rudy
Adulthood
- Roger could have gone to the University of Oklahoma for football, but he went to the Cleavland Indian to play baseball
- In his first year in the major league he hit 14 home runs
- Also in his first year he drove in 51 RBI's
- Midway through his second season/year he was traded to the Kansas City Athletics
- He finished the season with 28 home runs and 81 RBI's
- In his third year he was elected to the 1959 All-Star team
- After his 1959 season he was traded to t he New York Yankees
- In the first year with the Yankees he hit 27 home runs and 69 RBI's
- During this year he injured himself sliding into second
- His injury made him to miss 17 games
Adulthood Cont.
- During the World Series he hit 2 home runs
- Roger won the Gold Glove Award for outstanding fielding
- Roger beat Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in one season, when he hit 61 home runs in one season
- Roger got Most Valued Player (MVP) two times in a row
- He played in seven World Series in the sixties
- After his baseball career he operated an Anheuser Busch Beer distributorship
- Roger raised six children
- At the end of his career he had hit 275 home runs
- In the sixties he hit six home runs in the World Series
- He died on December 14, 1985 if lymphoma cancer at the age of 51