Roger Maris cause of death – Passed Away! Roger Maris, who held the significant association record for the most homers in a solitary season, kicked the bucket yesterday at M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston following a two-year session with malignancy, clinic authorities said. He was 51 years of age.
During the mid 1960’s the point at which the New York Yankees ruled for five straight flag winning seasons, Roger Maris was everything to all individuals. Yet, baseball history will recall him as the grand slam twin to Mickey Mantle, and ages of fans will recollect him as the man with the bullet in the record books: * Hit 61 homers in 1961 in a 162-game season.
The bullet was embedded to recognize Maris’ homer record from the one set in 1927 by the best Yankee of all: Babe Ruth, who hit 60 in the times of the 154-game season.
It was embedded into the record books by Ford C. Frick, the magistrate of baseball, who obviously mirrored the conservative perspective on many fans that the Olympian accomplishments of Babe Ruth should be safeguarded against long seasons, short fences and recently showed up sluggers – even one who in the end played in seven World Series and hit 275 grand slams in 12 seasons in the major associations.
Be that as it may, on Oct. 1. 1961, reference bullet or no indicator, Roger Maris left a mark on the world when he hit his 61st homer of the period in his 161st game on the last day of the 162-game season in Yankee Stadium against Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox.
It was the awakening end to an energizing season, and it finished with the Yankees dominating the flag race prior to thundering sellout groups and multitudes of scholars and telecasters drawn by Mantle and Maris, the force hitters in one more incredible Yankee group. Mantle, who was harmed in September, actually figured out how to hit 54 homers, so the “twins” consolidated for a great absolute of 115. However, Maris, a cultivated outfielder with an amazing arm and bat, was assaulted as he sought after the memory and the record of Ruth.
