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Old 10-05-2022, 04:09 PM
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Read some of the newspapers in 1961. Just google them. Maris was certainly receiving death threats.
I did not realize that. The pressure mentioned earlier in the thread was that of fans not wanting him to break the record, or preferring Mantle. If he was getting death threats that's legitimate pressure.
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