Article: Realize, fans, that records are made to be broken.(Originated from Newport News Daily Press)

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ This history lesson is intended for a segment of the baseball-fan population that seems to need it, perhaps out of selective memory or perhaps out of genuine ignorance. Kindly pay attention.

Someone might hit 62 home runs this season. Or 63, or perhaps even 64. Brace yourselves. And if it doesn't happen this season, it likely will within a few years. As this scenario takes root, a lot of folks seem offended. It's a sham, they cry, a travesty. The ball is lively and expansion has diluted the pitching, so no record set this year could compare to what Roger Maris did in 1961. A caller to a recent radio chat show suggested, and the host seemed to ...

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