Roger Maris 1961 Home Run Season | Baseball Almanac

On April 26, 1961, Roger Maris hit the first of 61 home runs. This was before steroids. A short excerpt from the article:

"The year a record was broken, hearts were broken, and a man's life was changed forever. Roger Maris will forever be known as the man that took Babe Ruth's record. The man that changed the record books. Maris was hated, booed, cussed, and generally abused by the press and fans for his chase of the most well-known mark in all of baseball: Babe Ruth's sixty single season home runs."

I think Babe Ruth would have been proud of a fellow Yankee.