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This Date In Baseball History: Roger Maris died of non-Hodgkin- lymphoma at the age of 51. I have always found the Roger Maris story to be a very sad one and it shouldn’t have been one [outside of his death at a young age.]

Roger Maris began his career in Cleveland and then was moved on to the Kansas City A’s before being traded to the Yankees in 1960. He was an immediate hit with the Yankees winning the AL MVP Award in 1960. In 1961 Maris and his teammate Mickey Mantle both made an assault on Babe Ruth’s cherished record of 60 home runs in a season. Late in the season they were running neck and neck when Mantle was sidelined with a abscessed hip he got from a flu shot. Mantle would finish with 54 home runs. The pressure was on Maris. The press in New York had…