Still a Legend
The Story of Roger Maris

This book recounts the slugger Roger Mariss life before, during, and after his headline season of 1961, when the taciturn North Dakota native topped Babe Ruths alltime record by hitting sixtyone homers. From his youth as a star highschool athlete and American Legion baseball player, Maris went on to bigtime sports with the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals. Author Rosenfeld argues that Rogers treatment by the press was both shabby and tragic and that Mariss midwestern modesty and his strength, his need for privacy, and his straightforward bluntness were often wrongly interpreted as arrogance and sullenness, a factor that led many to downplay his claim on the record books.