MP3 of the Day

On this day in 1961, Roger Maris broke the home-run record becoming the first ever major-league baseball player to hit more than 60 home runs in a single season. Babe Ruth set the elusive record in 1927. Maris and his teammate Mickey Mantle spent 1961 trying to break it. After hitting 54 homers, Mantle injured his hip, leaving Maris to chase the record by himself. Finally, in the last game of the regular season, Maris hit his 61st home run against the Boston Red Sox. In 1998, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs both broke Maris' home-run record. Sosa finished the season with 66 and McGwire finished with 70. Barry Bonds now holds the record with 73. Today we have the song St. Louis Runs by SUKPATCH.