In the season’s 161st game, 61 years after Roger Maris hit 61 home runs, the Yankees’ Aaron Judge hit No. 62. It was 11 home runs fewer than the record, but it was enough:
hit sixty home runs—a record that stood for the next thirty-four years. Frick seemed intent on letting it stand a while longer. Until 1961, M.L.B.’s regular seasons consisted of a hundred and fifty-four games; that year, the American League added two teams and eight more games per season.
Thirty years passed before M.L.B. announced that, in its view, Maris had the record clear. But the record didn’t stand for long: within a decade, it had been broken six times, by three different players. None of them—, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire—are in the Hall of Fame. All admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. There is no “” next to the current mark, of seventy-three home runs, which was set by Bonds in 2001, but many people seem to believe that there should be.
Unlike Maris, Judge fits the role of home-run king as beautifully as Ruth did, albeit in a different way. At six feet seven, with a chiselled jaw, he projects a kind of granite integrity. He is a Yankee in the Yankees’ own image, with that peculiar mix of self-regard and humility lately personified by. That Judge has not broken Bonds’s record doesn’t take anything away from his own accomplishment—the kind of dominance he has shown is for the ages.
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