61* : The Story of Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and One Magical Summer

61* : The Story of Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and One Magical Summer by Sporting News. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780892046621.

"61 in 61." For years, the phrase held a special place in baseball lore. In three simple words, baseball fans could remember one of the most captivating summers in baseball history, a summer that the most celebrated record in baseball fell. It was the summer in which two Yankees, everybodys hero, Mickey Mantle, and a farm kid from South Dakota, Roger Maris, staged a stunning assault on Ruths record. 61* expresses how The Sporting News covered that exciting summer. From its spring training dispatches, through each and every home run, through the controversial so-called asterisk ruling, to the final record-breaking home run, 61* chronicles in week-by-week format the home run race, up to and including the Yankees World Series victory that