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Career highlights and Honors for Roger Maris

Roger Maris received several awards and accomplished a number of achievements in his major league baseball career, including:

Awards

• American League All-Star (1959–1962; 7/8 games)
• American League Most Valuable Player (1960–1961)
• American League Gold Glove (Outfielder, 1960)

Achievements

• Major League home run champion (1961–1998)
• American League leader in home runs, runs scored, and total bases (1961)
• American League leader in RBIs and extra base hits (1960, 1961)
• American League leader in slugging average (1960)
• American League leader in fielding average as right fielder (1960, 1964)
• National League leader in fielding average as right fielder (1967)
• American League pennant team (1960–1964)
• National League pennant team (1967, 1968)
• World Series champion team (1961, 1962, 1967)
• Lifetime 5.39 home run percentage

Records

• American League: Single-season home runs (61, 1961)
  The 1961 single-season home run record stood for 37 years, longer than the record Maris broke of Babe Ruth’s 60 homers in 1927.

Halls of Fame, Retired Uniform

The Baseball City Hall of Fame, a self-proclaimed alternative organization to honor baseball legends the Hall of Fame has overlooked, has inducted Roger Maris and honors him among the greatest ever to play the game.

In a nod to the magnitude of Roger’s accomplishments, the National Baseball Hall of Fame includes Roger Maris artifacts. Permanently at Cooperstown are the bat Roger used to belt number 61, along with the immortalized baseball he hit off Tracy Stallard on October 1, 1961. His 1961 Yankees home jersey is also on display.

The Yankees retired #9, Maris’ uniform number, on July 21, 1984. A new Roger Maris plaque was also dedicated in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The plaque calls Maris, “A great player and author of one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of major league baseball.” Maris participated in the ceremony wearing a Yankee number 9 uniform.