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Review
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Honest but sometimes pedestrian account of the 1961 race
between Maris and Mantel to break Ruth's homerun record,
focussing on Maris' struggles with the media coverage which
tended to favour golden boy Mantle over the outsider from
the midwest, Maris. Maris and Mantle were actually good
friends during the year but Mantle was a drunk and womanizer
who pulled himself together for one extraordinary year,
while Maris was a dour midwesterner who didn't like the
media and didn't seem to enjoy the game. The coverage at
the time was outlandish.
Well acted but not noteworthy for artistic reasons.
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