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. NEW YORK (UPI) -Roger
Maris wants "one more" not
for the added money, prestige or
even tne glory of passing Babe
Kuth but merely as a matter
of "personal pride."
Baseball's new home run king
the only man in major league
nistory to hit 60 home runs in
one season outside of Ruth, will
get his chance at No. 61 today
when he starts in right field for
the New York Yankees againsl
the Baltimore Orioles.
4 "One more homer would mean
something to me that 1 could
never explain," said the 27-year
old Maris solemnly. "It has noth
ing to do with records, money or
anything like that.
.- "The only way I could put it
into words Would be to say per
sonal pride,
"Like I . told Mrs! Ruth: I'm
glad I didn't break the Babe's
record in 154 games. This record
if it is one is good enough for
me.
Widow Congratulates Maris
". The Babe's widow was among
.the first to congratulate Maris
lollowing Tuesday night s game
In which Mans connected for his
60th off a curve ball thrown by
.Baltimore pitcher Jack Fisher
during the third inning.
"You had a great year," Mrs.
Ruth told Maris, shaking his
hand. "I want to wish you luck in
the World Series and I know Babe
would have wished you the same.
- Maris still was in a semi-daze
a full hour after he picked on a
2-and-2 pitch by Fisher and rock
eted It off a concrete step in the
upper right field deck, some 375
feet from home plate.
'' "I'm in a fog," he told news
men. "Tomorrow maybe I'll be'
lieve it." '
1. Maris' homer Tuesday night
came in the Yankees' 158th game,
excluding a tie. Ruth belted his
60th homer-in the next to the last!
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INTO THE SEATS FOR THE 60TH TIME New York
Yankee outfielder Roger Maris picked out the pitch ho
liked Tuesday night, uncorked his swing and sent the ball
sailing into the stands to equal the 34-year-old 60 home
run record of Babe Ruth.- The young slugger has four
games remaining in which to garner number 61, his new
goal.
Mrs. Babe, Frick
Congratulate Rog
By United Press International
Commissioner Ford Frick and
Mrs. Babe Ruth led the baseball
world today in extending congrat
ulations to Roger Maris for his
feat of matching Ruth's all-time
single-season high of 60 homers.
"It's a marvelous thing," said
Frick, who watched Maris hit No.
60 on television Tuesday night. "It
will go into the books as a record
for a 162-game season while
Ruth's record stands as the mark
for 154 games."
You had a great-year,? said
Mrs. Ruth, who was at Yankee
Stadium and was among the first
to offer personal congratulations
to the 27-year-old Yankee slugger1
who hadn't been born when Ruth
set his mark in 1927. "I want to
wish you luck in the World Series
and I know Babe would have
wished you the same."
Greenberg Is Delighted
Hank Greenberg, who hit 58
homers for the Detroit Tigers in
1038; American League President
Joe Cronin; ex-Pittsburgh Pirate
slugger Ralph Kiner, who reached
the 54-mark in 1049, and ex-Yan
kee Manager Joe McCarthy also
extended congratulations.
"I was sure Roger would hit 60,
' Bag' Reds Win National Penn&ni
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- American League
W. L. Pet. G.B.
X-New York . 106 52 .671
Detroit 97 61 .614 9
Baltimore 92 67 .579 14'4
Chicago 86 73 .541 20z
Cleveland 76 80 .487 29
Boston 75 83 .475 31 .
Minnesota . ..- 69 66 .445 35
Los Angeles ... 66 90 .423 39
Kansas City ... 60 97 ,.382 45',-a
Washington ... 59 97 .378 46
x-clinched pennant.
Thursday Results
New York 3, Baltimore 2 IN)
Kansas City 8, Detroit 5 (N)
Washington 3, Los Angeles 2
(N
Chicago 7-5, Boston 5-7
Cleveland 7, Minnesota 3
Thursday Games
Cleveland at Minnesota
Washington at Los Angeles (N
Only games scheduled
National League
W. L. Pet. G.B
92 59
87 63
N83 66
81 70
78 73
72 77
before the season ended and he'
will probably hit a few more be
fore it s over, said Greenberg
1 m aeugntea with his accom
plishment. It's good for baseball
and especially for the American
League.
"I'm very happy for the boy,"
said Cronin, "and I want to ex
tend my heartiest congratulations
to him.
Did Fine Job '
"He did a very fine job," said
Kiner, "and I think that he has
a good chance to go over the 60-
mark before the season ends."
"I'm glad he did it," said Mc
Carthy, who managed the Yan
kees to eight pennants between
1932 and 1943. "Maris didn't break
Ruth's record according to Com
missioner Frick's ruling but
he did set a record in the new
schedule."
Tom Zachary, the ex-Wash
ington Senator pitcher off whom
Ruth hit No. 60 in 1927, said that
Maris "never will be like Ruth'
but added, "he does have the
knack of hitting homers."
"I think there should be a dif
ference between records for t h e
154-game and the 162-game sea
sons, he added. '
x-Cincinnati .,
Los Angeles -
San Francisco
Milwaukee . .
St. Louis
Pittsburgh ..,
Chicago 62 89
PWidelphia .. 46 104
x-clincied pennant.
Tuesday Results
Cincui-iati 6, Chicago 3
Milwaukee 9, St. Louis 2
Los Angeles 5-0, Pittsburgh 3-8
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BALTIMORE (API - Roger
Maris knocked -most of the gla
mour off home run ball No. 59
Tuesday night by slugging his
60th homer of the season at New
York's Yankee Stadium.
But if the Yankee outfielder
still has a sentimental attachment
for No. 59, he can get it without
charge.
Several hours before Tuesday
night's homer, an agreement was
reached here between: Bob Reitz,
the 32-year-old Baltimorean whol
caught No. 59 last Wednesday
night, and the Sports Boosters ofl
Maryland.
Reitz agreed to accept $500
from the sports group, and an
nounced he would turn the money:
over to the Associated Catholic
Charities, of Baltimore.
Not Surprised
FARGO, N.D. (AP) The pa
rents of Roger Maris were proud
but not surprised when their son
slugged his 60th homer for the
Yankees Tuesday.
Roger's father Rudy, hearing of
number 60, said I feel great,
hope he gets another one. I felt
he'd get a tie when he got back
to Yankee Stadium. The pressure
is off now.
Staid Cincinnati Celebrates
Pennant Win In King-Size Style
Wednesday, September 27, 1961
PAGE I B
CINCINNATI, Ohio (UPH-The
year was 1940 and Europe already
was plunging into World War II.
While war clouds gathered in
the United States, people listened
to Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga
Choo Choo." and in Cincinnati,
the Reds won their second con
secutive National League pennant.
Since then, every other club in
the league won a championship
except the Reds.
Tuesday, the city caught up with
the space age when the Reds won
share of the 1961 flag by com
ing from behind to beat the Chi
cago Cubs, 6-3, and hours later
actually clinched it when Pitts
burgh shut out the second-place
Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-0, in the
second game of a doubleheader.
Staid Cincinnati made up for 21
years of baseball frustration with
a king-size celebration that sur
passed VJ Day and even a rally
for Kennedy last fall.
The official estimate at 10 p.m.
EDT placed the crowd total
at 30,000 in Fountain Square, in
the heart of the downtown area.
The noise sounded as though at
least 100,000 were oh hand.
The noise reached . a climax
when members of the ball club ar
rived in the midst of the celebra
tion. Shortly afterwards, news ar
rived that Pittsburgh had defeated
the Dodgers in the nightcap.
It took a squad of policemen to
clear the way to let the players
out of the bus. One reporter said
it took him 15 minutes to move!
licemen on duty, but they were
lost in the surging mass of human
ity.
One man was shoved through
the window of a candy store by
the press of the crowd. Several
persons fainted, and at one point,
police asked a television camera
crew to help maintain order.
When it was announced that the
Pirates had won, motorists
honked horns, shotguns went off
in the suburbs, firecrackers were
set off and college boys shinnied
up utility poles.
One man was arrested when he
dumped four bottles of liquid soap
into the huge fountain dominating
Fountain Square and sent soap
suds all over the street. Another
18-year-old went swimming in the
soapy fountain. Police arrested
both on disorderly conduct
charges.
Says It's Wonderful
Pushed before a microphone,
manager Fred Hutchinson, in a
hoarse, raspy voice, said over and
over, "It's wonderful, wonderful."
General Manager. William O. De-
Witt called it the ."greatest thrill
of. my life.- I've never seen any
thing like this. The only other time
was in 1926 when the Cards won
the pennant in St. Louis."
Pennants, Cincinnati . baseball
caps, and signs -mat resembled a
political . convention dotted t h e
crowd.
."Maris and Mantle, you don't
bother us, one sign read. An
other had the message, "The Reds
When it was all over, the down
town area looked as if Hurricane
Esther had struck.
Confetti, beer cans, and debris
were piled high from the biggest
hangover in the city's history.
Today, the bleary-eyed cry was,
"Bring on the Yankees."
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Picks Cincy To Win
PITTSBURGH (UPD - Manag-
cr Walt Alston of the Los An
geles Dodgers today picked the
Cincinnati Reds to defeat the
New York Yankees lit the World
Series because he. was "a Nation-1
at League man. ' "
Alston chose the 1961 National
League champions just before de
parting with his team for.Phila-
aeipnia wnere tne. Dodgers, open
a series -tonight -against the Phil
lies. , " , .. , ..
Los Angeles was eliminated
from the pennant race Tuesday
night when Pirate left-hander Joe
Gibbon posted a one-hit 8-0 win in
the nightcap of a twi-night double
header. The Dodgers won the
opener 5-3.
Visually .downcast after the de
feat, Alston proclaimed:
"We didn't lose it tonight: We
lost it a month ago." He refused
to elaborate .further. ;
Reds Deserve Credit
Alston said the Reds deserved
credit "for. the tway they won it
in a tough league. .
The Dodger manager' also laud
ed Gibbon, who pitched the first
one-hitter of his professional ca
reer. His best previous effort was
two-hitter while playing class
B ball in the Pirates', organiza
tion. . ,
You mean to tell me he (Gib
bon) hod only seven strikeouts?
It seemed like 17. His fast ball
was real good, the greying Wal
ter added. "He pitched a real fine
game. . . ...
Pirate Manager s Danny ; Mur,-
taugh was even more "emphatic in
predicting a Red victory Jn.- tlie
fallclassic. . "
. "Yes , sir, .they'll, heat the
Yanks," Murtaugh said, "X wish
them the best of luck; I think our
whole club will by 'pulling for
them.'.;; , .'
Murtaugh noted, Cincinnati's
club this year was similar to His
1960 Pirates.
"Last year we wpn those close
games . . . and they did the same
thing this' year scoring just
what they needed, the Pirate
boss said, . ,'.','"'
Murtaugh said he was glad his
team had beaten the Dodgers, in
a convincing fashion., ' ' - ,f
,; Dodgers Somber'". : '
If they had to be eliminated,"
he said, "I'm glad it was that
way and not on a booted ball or
some misplay." ' '
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lence reigned for -the most part.
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