October 2, 1961
Writer Roger Kahn spent the last month of the 1961 season
"unobtrusively but constantly" observing Roger
Maris's pursuit of Babe Ruth's single-season home run
record. Kahn reported of the "suffocating, unrelenting
pressure—pressure such as no ballplayer
has ever had to
endure."
photo by John G. Zimmerman |
