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Baseball’s Roger Maris: the slugger who surpassed the Babe

It was 50 years ago, on Oct. 1, that Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth’s single-season home run mark by hitting his record-breaking 61^st home run on the 1961 season’s final game. Only 23,154 witnessed the the solo shot in Yankee Stadium. Maris is surely the least known of baseball’s greatest sluggers. Test your own Maris knowledge with this quiz.

9. Although Maris was never enshrined in the Hall of Fame, a museum is dedicated to him in a shopping mall in the city where he last lived. What city is it?

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This image shows Roger Maris while he was with the New York Yankees in the early 1960s.

New York
Kansas City, Mo.
Fargo, N.D.
Santa Fe, N.M.

Baseball’s Roger Maris: the slugger who surpassed the Babe

9. Although Maris was never enshrined in the Hall of Fame, a museum is dedicated to him in a shopping mall in the city where he last lived. What city is it?

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