The Making Of 61*

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• JO

  @JoshuaWaltz-fj4rg · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  This movie is so great. Barry and Thomas couldn’t have been any better.  RIP Roger and Mickey.

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• BU

  @bunt2462 · 5 years ago

  The most underrated baseball movie ever

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• MI

  @mikecustenborder3991 · 5 years ago

  Crystal did a great job. Baseball is America's game!

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• JO

  @joebrindley4570 · 1 year ago

  I  was seven and held my Dad's hand as we walked down the Metropollitan stadium in Minneapolis to watch my first game.  As we walked to our seats which were near the batting cage and players doing some practice.  My Dad stopped and was checking the tickets for our seats. I looked out into the field and the first players I saw had their backs to me.  I noticed their numbers, 7 and 9.  Mantle and Maris were the first players I ever saw in person.  That day  Mantle hit a home run.  I have never forgotten that moment.

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• KE

  @kevinvanmeter2264 · 3 years ago

  Roger Maris belongs in the Hall of Fame. Ford Frick drove him to his death. Baseball owes this to him.

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• DA

  @Dan-ys8nk · 5 years ago (edited)

  I miss the old Yankee Stadium. When Billy Crystal walks out in the first minute of the video, the look of the stadium brought me back to my 90s childhood at Yankee Stadium. What a hell of a summer for Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961. My late grandfather, who was in his 30s at the time, was at the game when Roger Maris broke the record on October 1, 1961. I had a chance to meet Mickey Mantle in 1994 before we lost him. A great ballplayer and a New York legend. Roger Maris was a great ballplayer and down to earth man. As far as I'm concerned, Roger Maris is still the home run king 60 years later.

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• TY

  @Tyrunner0097 · 1 year ago

  You wish that Mickey and Roger would&apos;ve been alive to see this movie. I&apos;m sure for Roger especially, it would&apos;ve been very painful to relive 1961 again, but he also would&apos;ve been happy to see it done accurately, and the same for Mickey. They both would&apos;ve said to Billy, &quot;You did it right.&quot;<br><br>61* is still one of my favorite baseball movies.

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• CA

  @carmenguldenschuh9483 · 4 years ago

  I love Roger Maris he was one of my favorite baseball players of all time Barry Pepper did a great job playing him I love Barry Pepper and his acting such a great movie I love this movie ones of my favorite movies I love to watch over and over great job 👍❤️❣️💖⭐️😍🙏😇🕊♥️🌹

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• MI

  @MichaelHattem · 4 years ago

  Part of the bad feeling was because he did do it. He reminded them that Mantle was human. He did something Mantle, everyone&apos;s hero, couldn&apos;t do. And so they responded with indifference and diminished the achievement to avoid having to reckon with that.

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• SU

  @suzannequinson8439 · 1 year ago

  This was just lovely. Billy&apos;s love of the game is so wholesome. We need more of this.

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• MI

  @michaelward9880 · 1 year ago

  RIP Roger and Mickey. You were both great ballplayers.

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• HE

  @HealthMavrik · 1 year ago

  I think this movie connects with any one of us (60+ yrs old) to the memories we cherish of a game and team we loved so much.

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