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Roger Maris: “I’d Rather Have the Dough Than the Record”

Maris looked straight into baseball writer Joe Reichler's eyes. With what Reichler described as a slight sneer, Maris told him, "I was born surly and I'm going to stay that way. Everything is tough in life."

In 1961, Maris was referred to as an angry young man. On occasions, even some New York Yankees' players called him "the red-necked Roger." Maris admitted that he sometimes was not easy to get along with.

New York is unfair, uncaring, brutal, demanding, dictatorial and detached.

Maris made the mistake of being a young player with the Kansas City A's who had great potential. In December 1959, Yankees general manager George M. Weiss brought Maris to New York for a group of Yankees players that had seen better days.

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