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1961 newspaper sports-section front page with banner headline, long detailed article and historic photograph announcing that the NEW YORK YANKEES CLINCH the American league PENNANT with a victory over the Baltimore Orioles, but that Roger Maris, in Belting his59th HOMERUN of the season, would officially be recorded as one homerun short of typing the record of 60 by BABE RUTH over a 154-game season!!

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SEE PHOTO-----ORIGINALNEWSPAPER SPORTS SECTION FRONT PAGE,theMilwaukee Journal (Wisc) dated September 21, 1961with banner headline, long detailed article and historic photograph announcing that the NEW YORK YANKEES CLINCH the American league PENNANT with a victory over the Baltimore Orioles, but that Roger Maris, in Belting his59th HOME RUN of the season, would officially be recorded as one home run short of typing the record of 60 by BABE RUTH over a 154-game season!!Maris ended up setting the Major League Home run record that year, with 61, but had an asterisk next to his name for years as his record was achieved over 162 games, not 154.

DISPLAYABLE NEW YORK YANKEES history in this 1961 newspaper!! Roger Maris pounds his 59th homer as the Yanks clinch the A.L. Pennant!!

In 1961, The American League expanded from 8 to 10 teams. In the expansion draft, the newly created Los Angeles Angels and Washington Senators were restricted to drafting players from AL rosters. The perceived result was that American League team rosters had become watered down as players who would otherwise have been playing at AAA if not lower were now in the AL. The Yankees, however, were left mainly intact. In order to maintain a balanced schedule, AL owners extended the season from 154 games to 162 games. On January 23, 1961, an Associated Press reporter asked Maris whether the schedule changes might threaten Babe Ruth\'s single-season home run record; Maris replied, \"Nobody will touch it... Look up the records and you\'ll see that it\'s a rare year when anybody hits 50 homers, let alone 60.\"

Yankee home runs began to come at a record pace. One famous photograph lined up six 1961 Yankees, including Mantle, Maris, Yogi Berra, and Bill Skowron, under the nickname \"Murderers Row\", because they hit a combined 165 home runs the previous season (The title \"Murderers Row\", originally coined in 1918, had most famously been used to refer to the 1927 Yankees). As mid-season approached, it seemed quite possible that either Maris or Mantle, or perhaps both, would break Ruth\'s 34-year-old home run record. Unlike the home run race of 1998, where both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were given extensive positive media coverage in their pursuit of Maris\' record, sportswriters in 1961 began to play the \"M&M Boys\" against each other, inventing a rivalry where none existed, as Yogi Berra has told multiple interviewers.

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