M&M Boys
Baseball player duo Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "M&M Boys" were the duo of New York Yankees baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who were teammates from 1960 to 1966.[lower-alpha 1] They gained prominence during the 1961 season, when Maris and Mantle, batting third and cleanup (fourth) in the Yankee lineup respectively, both challenged Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season record of 60 home runs. The home run lead would change hands between the two teammates numerous times throughout the summer and fueled intense scrutiny of the players by the press. Maris eventually broke the record when he hit his 61st home run on the final day of the season, while Mantle hit 54 before he was forced to pull out of the lineup in September because of an abscessed hip.
Maris' record stood for 37 years until it was broken in 1998 by Mark McGwire, who later admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs during much of his career.[3] Maris and Mantle still hold the single-season record for combined home runs by a pair of teammates, with 115.[4][5]