The New York Yankees are sporting a 81-54 record, tops in the AL East, with 27 games remaining in the 2022 regular season.
Aaron Judge is sitting on 54 home runs. Can he break the American League single-season home run record set by Roger Maris in 1961.
Sixty-one years later, we are about to find out.
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The most exciting play in baseball is the home run. A towering blast over the fence…the ball bouncing around in the seats, as fans frantically chase down the elusive object — a small oval of cowhide complete with 108 red-seamed handwoven stitches on the outside and inside 396 feet of yarn holding a cork and rubber center together.
Millions of baseballs every year are stamped good to go and shipped by the Rawlings Company out of Costa Rica to all thirty of the Major League Baseball teams in the United States.
One of those baseballs may end up as a prize possession for a fan who just might be the one to chase down and grab a hold of the 62nd home run hit this season by New York Yankee slugger Aaron Judge.
Judge is sitting on 54 homers as the final four weeks of the 2022 regular season schedule is now front and center. The slugger needs eight more homers to eclipse the American League record of 61, set by Roger Maris, in 1961, during his epic battle for home run supremacy with Mickey Mantle.
What will the 62nd home run ball be worth?
Well, only time will tell. What will the lucky fan who retrieves or catches the ball do once the record-breaking baseball is safely in his or her hands? We shall see.
Sal Durante, 19, retrieved the home run ball hit by Maris in 1961. The young man from Brooklyn received five thousand dollars and handed the ball over to a California restaurant owner by the name of Sam Gordon, who gave the ball to Maris.
It’ll be historic if Judge hits the record-breaking round tripper…and the fan who catches this one, well, he or she, will become a celebrity as well. The lucky fan will be forever linked to Aaron Judge.
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