Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

October 1st 1956

Mickey Mantle and the New York Yankees get ready to face the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Sereis starting October 3rd at Ebbets Field.   

The Yankees would win their 17th world championship and give us the true fall classic in game 5.  This was Don Larsen's MVP performance with the only perfect game in baseball postseason history.  Larsen won game 5 2-0 but the Yankees would need 7 games to finally dispatch the Dodgers.   

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LIFE 

August 18th 1961

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the New York Yankees chase "The Babe" for the single season home run record.  Maris would set the new mark of 61 on the last day of the 1961 season.

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Roger Maris

October 2nd 1961

Roger Maris of the NY Yankees was chasing Babe Ruth's record of 61 home runs in a season.

He had won the American League MVP in 1960 and would win it again in 1961 as he set the new single season home run record with 61.  Maris along with teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford would power the Yankees to the 1961 World Series championship defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 1.