1961. The year history would be rewritten. The year before, in 1960, the Yankees had come of a devastating lost in Game 7 of the World Series when a Pittsburgh Pirate would hit a home run over the ivy to walk of the World Series. One of the most memorable long shots in baseball history. Mickey Mantle was crying on the plane ride home. Another one of his teammates said that it was just a game. Mickey Mantle would explain in his autobiography that it wasn’t ‘’Yankee Type.’’ But 1961 had high hopes for the Yankees. Five years earlier Mickey Mantle won the Triple Crown and the MVP award. Also in the offseason of 1959, the Yankees acquired Roger Maris in a trade with the Kansas City Athletics.