Roger Maris Jr

Aaron Judge had gone seven games since his last home run, 34 plate appearances of fans quieting to a hush with every pitch.

Ruth set the record four times in all, with 54 in 1920, 59 in 1921 and 60 in 1927, a mark that stood until Maris’ 61 in 1961. Judge isn’t sure what he will give the Hall of Fame. 4, 1991, when a committee on statistical accuracy chaired by Commissioner Fay Vincent voted unanimously to recognize Maris as the record holder. “I think baseball needs to look at the records. He has a chance to become the first AL Triple Crown winner since Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Nap Lajoie hit 14 in the AL’s first season as a major league in 1901, and Philadelphia Athletics teammate Socks Seabold had 16 the next year, a mark that stood until Babe Ruth hit 29 in 1919. “From the Little League days, from getting me ready for school, taking me to my first couple of practices and games, being there for my first professional game, being there for my debut, and then now getting the chance to be here for this, this is so special. “You hear the noise. Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 and 65 the following year, and Bonds topped him with 73 in 2001. He had tied Roger Maris’ American League record of 61 home runs in a season, what many fans consider baseball’s “clean” standard for the sport. “I think everyone is just so excited for him.” His 117.4 mph drive off left-hander Tim Mayza (8-1) snapped a 3-3 tie and took just 3.8 seconds to land 394 feet from the plate.

If Aaron Judge hits 62 home runs, he will be baseball's real single-season home run champion in the eyes of Roger Maris Jr.

I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something." "I think most people do." set the MLB record for home runs in 1961, eclipsing the mark held by the legendary Babe Ruth. He should be revered for being the actual single-season home run champ," Maris continued. "I think it gives people a chance to look at somebody who should be revered for hitting 62 home runs and not just as a guy who did it in the American League. Afterward in a press conference, Maris Jr.

Roger Maris Jr. called Barry Bonds home run record illegitimate, saying New York Yankees OF Aaron Judge will be the new home run king when he reaches 62 ...

I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something." "[Judge] should be revered and celebrated just like the single-season home run champ, not just like he's the American League home run champ," Maris Jr. Judge has seven games left in the regular season to tack on one more big fly and break a tie with Maris. He had already embraced this entire process, assuring to reporters that Judge is due to smash his 62nd homer before the end of the week during New York's final regular season series at Yankee Stadium. "He should be celebrated and I can't think of anybody better that baseball can look up to than Aaron Judge, who is the face of baseball." Before Judge did it on Wednesday, nobody had accomplished such a feat in the American League since Maris did it in 1961.

TORONTO – Outside the Rogers Centre visiting clubhouse, Aaron Judge embraced his mom, Patty, and received a handshake and a hug from Roger Maris Jr.

“Not just for me, I think it means a lot for a lot of people,’’ Maris Jr. And in a postgame press conference room Wednesday night, with Patty Judge quietly seated in the back, Maris Jr. 62 baseball might be worth a small fortune, but No. noted that the nine-day wait for 61, next to Roger Maris’ retired No. "Get to New York, hit 62 and knock the top off Yankee Stadium,’’ Maris Jr. 9, gives you Judge’s No. “I think that needs to happen.’’ “It’s going to be fun.’’ Maris Jr. In a retweet, Maris Jr. How Roger Maris Jr. For over a week, Maris Jr.

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Maris Jr. Nevertheless, Maris Jr. In fact, Maris Jr. Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Babe Ruth are the only others to eclipse 60 home runs in a season. 9 Maris jersey and a No. The 61st blast comes 61 years after Maris hit his 61st home run in 1961 (whoa).

Maris Jr. says he considers the records held by Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire to be illegitimate.

After the game, Maris Jr. In the end, 73 is the record and will remain the record until someone hits 74. [San Francisco Giants](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/teams/SF/san-francisco-giants/) -- to be the record, [which of course it is](https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/no-aaron-judge-wont-be-baseballs-real-home-run-king-if-he-gets-to-62-this-season/). I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something." He sat with Judge's mother, Patty, during Wednesday's game and then congratulated Judge personally after the game. Maris of course hit 61 home runs with the 1961 Yankees.

Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris's American League record with his 61st home run of the season, and Maris's former teammate Bobby Richardson sees many ...

“The boy is planning to get married and he can use the money, but he still wanted to give the ball back to me for nothing. Frick had infamously declared that July that if it took a hitter longer than 154 games to eclipse Ruth, a “distinctive mark in the record books” would be affixed to the total. Instead, the 61st homer found its way to Sal Durante, a 19-year-old fan from Brooklyn who caught it on the fly in the stands. Louis that off-season, but Maris took the time to commission a personalized gift for his friend. But the Yankees held a day to honor Richardson before his retirement in late 1966, a miserable year in which the team finished in last place for the first time since 1912. “He had a friend who was a jeweler and had it made. “He would be tickled to death that Judge would be the one breaking his record. Richardson, who is 5-foot-9, never had his number retired for him by the Yankees, as Maris did for his No. Judge is the first hitter to reach 61 homers in the two decades that Major League Baseball has been testing for performance-enhancing drugs. Judge connected off the Blue Jays left-hander Tim Mayza with a liner to left in the seventh inning, a two-run shot that broke a tie in an eventual 8-3 Yankees victory. When Maris was laid to rest on a bitterly cold December day in Fargo, N.D., Bobby Richardson gave the eulogy. Roger Maris was 19 days old when Babe Ruth hit his final home run for the Yankees in 1934.

Mark McGwire. Barry Bonds. Aaron Judge: Your single-season home run king? Well, that is according to Roger Maris Jr.

Others believe that the record belongs to Bonds, who mashed 73 in 2001, beating McGwire's mark of 70 set in 1998. But don't expect the debate to die out any time soon. Obviously, MLB's PED policy was a bit more lax in those days, giving players more leeway on what they were putting in their bodies and the consequences of doing so. I think he gives people a chance to look at somebody who should be revered for hitting 62 home runs, and not just as a guy who did it in the American League. Some believe that the record belongs to Maris, who hit 61 in 1961, presumably without any type of performance-enhancing drugs. I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something.

Son of the former New York Yankee legend has a change of heart after supporting Mark McGwire breaking his dad's long ball record in 1998.

I think (the MLB) needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something.” The Maris’ approach to scrubbing away 1998 to open a path for Judge is a self-own. And he can claim his opinion, too, on McGwire not being the first to break it 24 years ago. “He’s clean, he’s a Yankee, he plays the game the right way and I think it gives people a chance to look at somebody who should be revered for hitting 62 home runs and not just a guy who did it in the American League,” Maris Jr. [hopped into the stands](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gGm7N6CG1g) to embrace the Maris family in the perfect combination of baseball’s past and present. Louis, after the “new” single-season home-run king trotted around first-base and was given a high five by Mark Grace, who would’ve made the rest of the infield look childish to not give the same sportsman’s gesture, the Maris family looked proudly on from the front row outside the Cardinals’ dugout.