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Roger Maris

            
             He lived a life of love and caring and he also was a great sportsman. In high school he played football and baseball. He and his brother were the star players on the football team and Roger was a lone star on the baseball team. After high school Roger was offered a fully paid scholarship to play football at the University of Alabama, but he turned it down to play professional baseball. .
             Although Roger Maris had a lot of accomplishments his greatest one was breaking Babe Ruth's single season home run record. Babe Ruth set the record of 60 in 1927 and his record lasted 36 years. Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season for the New York Yankees on October 1, 1961 to break the record previously set by Babe Ruth. Roger Maris's record lasted 37 years, until Mark McGwire broke it in the fall of 1998. Mark McGwire finished the 1998 season with an astonishing 70 home runs. Which now in 2001 Barry Bonds Had Beat Mark McGwires Record. .
             Maris's greatest accomplishment also caused him to have some of his hardest times in life. During the "Home Run Race" Maris was bothered by the press constantly. Wherever he went the press was there. When he went to the super market, to his apartment, to the ballpark even to the bathroom the press was there to ask him questions about "The Race." As a result of this he started to lose his hair faster than normal and he smoked more then he normally did.I admire Roger Maris because even though the press bothered him all the time he did not buckle under all the pressure. He remained cool and just waited out all the hard times. In the end everything worked out for the better. His life is a great inspiration to young people. When Roger was young kids told him that he was not any good and some of his teachers told him that he would not amount to anything. But he proved them wrong and went on to become one of the greatest baseball players in history.
            


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1. Steroids and the Game of Baseball

The 1960's featured San Francisco Giant's Centerfielder Willie Mays roam the outfield and Roger Maris hit an overwhelming 61 home runs in one season. Despite Maris' hitting his 61 round-trippers, there was an even greater growth in home runs in the 1990's. ... Roger managed to play 24 years and avoided any major injuries in the Major Leagues from the years 1984-2007 ("Roger Clemens"). ... None of Roger Clemens' career or single season marks is even close to those of Cy Young's. ... Word-of-mouth is the way Roger Clemens' name was leaked to authorit...

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2. Babe Ruth

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3. The Sports Card And Memorablia Market

His rookie card (1989 Upper Deck, card number 1) is valued at $70.00, in the past four years it has never been valued under $65.00, but as of April 25th he has 13 homeruns and is on pace to break Roger Maris" single-season record (61 in 1961). ... A lot of money stands to be made by investing in Griffey's cards now (when I can find them at $48 on the Internet) and selling them when and if he breaks Maris" record. ...

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4. Impact of Mickey Mantle

The Babe, Roger Marris, Willie Mays, and Joe DiMaggio are all baseball players that have had some sort of significance in Major League Baseball. ... Roger Maris broke the record of 61 homeruns in a homerun race and the crowd still rooted against Maris and continued to urge Mantle on. ...

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5. Derek Jeter

He is only twenty-eight years old, yet he has already established himself as one of the best baseball players in the history of Major League Baseball. His name may be compared to other Yankees greats including Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, or Roger Maris. This native of Kalamazoo, Michigan is also on...

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6. A foul ball

But if Roger Maris got an asterisk next to his name in the records when he hit 61 home runs in 1961 to beat Ruth's one-season record of 60, what will baseball do if it finds out that 65, 70, 73 or 80 home runs were hit by players using steroids or other illegal substances? All Maris did was play in a few more games then Ruth. ...

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7. Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

For example in baseball, as stated by a fan, "he and other fans still considered Roger Maris, a North Dakota native, to be the single-season home run champ with 61", even though he had not ever used steroids (Dick Patrick, 2005, paragraph 2). ...

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8. Children And Television

Also, Mister Roger's Neighborhood has helped then deal with emotions and self control. ... In accordance to what Mari Winn says about the violence on television affecting children's behavior I must agree. ...

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9. Is it worth it?

Is It Worth It? In September 1998, Mark McGwire made history by hitting a sixty-second home run. Some weeks earlier many people suspected Mark McGwire of using androstenedione, a compound that boosts levels of the male sex hormone (Bamerger and Yaeger 7). Mark McGwire had been taking a legal dr...

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