When he got cancer, a whole generation felt the fear of death," said author Roger Kahn about Mickey Mantle on ... Fans rooted against Roger Maris, and they urged Mantle on. But Maris broke the ...

The Billy Crystal movie, "61*," debuts Saturday night on HBO amid nearly as much publicity as the Great Home Run Race produced back in 1961, when Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle challenged Babe Ruth ...