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Article: Fargo's own; While the chase to top baseball's home run record has focused attention on sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, the recordholder, Roger Maris, is still remembered fondly in his hometown.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 30, 1998
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Baseball's summer of revival has reached even Fargo, where the RedHawks - suddenly the New York Yankees of the independent Northern League - are celebrating a summer of sunshine and sellouts at Newman Outdoor Field.
But there, at the splendid three-year-old ballpark not named for Roger Maris, the major-leaque quest by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa for the single-season, home-run record recently pitted player against manager, Fargoan against outsider: The RedHawks' substantial skipper, Doug Simunic, engaged catcher Chris Coste in a late-night discussion in the city in which Coste was born and Maris was raised.
"He made the mistake of saying Roger was not a ...