Mickey
Mantle and Roger Maris. Why did America have room in its heart for only
one hero?
Playing
TBA
7:30
PM
Drama
(2001)
Rated:
Unrated
129
minutes
Summer, 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break
the most hallowed record in U.S. sports, Babe Ruth's single-season 60 home runs.
It's a big story, and the intense, plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports
writers bait him and minimize his talent, fans cheer Mantle, the league's golden
boy, and baseball's commissioner announces that Ruth's record stands unless it's
broken within 154 games. Any record set after 154 games of the new 162-game
schedule will have an asterisk. The film follows the boys of summer, on and off
the field: their friendship, the stresses on Maris, his frustration with the
negative attention, and his desire to play well, win, and go home.