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Roger Maris

At the Baseball Hall of Fame Bullpen Theater on Friday, April 22 2005 and again on Sunday April 24, Andy Strasberg will present his story "Roger Maris and Me," a program on his friendship with Roger Maris and the Maris family.

Here is that story, courtesy of ChickenSoup.com

Roger Maris and Me

by Andy Strasberg

I grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium and just fell in love with baseball.

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When Roger Maris came to the New York Yankees from the Kansas City Athletics in 1960, I was eleven. I had been burned in a fire in August, so I was laid up for a while and followed baseball even more closely. I remember a headline that said Roger Maris "rejuvenates" the Yankees.

I had never heard the word before, but it made me think this Roger Maris was someone special.

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For me, there was something about the way he swung the bat, the way he played right field and the way he looked. I had an idol.

In 1961 the entire country was wrapped up in the home-run race between Maris a