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Another Surly Slugger Were you upset when Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run and passed Babe Ruth's career home-run total? Our Sept. 29, 1961, story on the New York Yankees' Roger Maris showed that even players who aren't accused of using steroids can rile the fans...
When McGwire and Sosa were pursuing Maris's record in 1998, Maris Jr. appeared at games to celebrate both players. But that was before baseball's steroid scandal raised questions about their achievements.
"Of everybody, Barry has the biggest black cloud," said Maris, Jr. 47, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., where he owns a Budweiser brewery. "At least when McGwire did it, nobody was really thinking like that. Baseball and the whole country were behind him and it sucked everybody in. It was...
The climate, however, has changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the...
"If these folks are on the juice, and I believe they are, then Roger should get his record back," said Joel Heitamp, a North Dakota state senator, last year. Maris, Jr., said he wasn't sure what should happen should baseball officials determine that the three men who eclipsed his...