Roger Maris Museum
October 28th, 2008Tuff Stuff magazine has a nice article on the Roger Maris museum in my hometown of Fargo, North Dakota. It was a pleasant surprise to find this piece of my childhood memories on the Tuff Stuff site.
The Roger Maris “museum” is really more of a display than a formal museum. When I first started collecting baseball cards in about 1986, the display was right across from a now long gone sports card and coin shop in the West Acres mall. The display featured quite a number of Roger Maris’s baseball cards from his 1959 Topps rookie card onward. It also has numerous homerun balls, gloves, uniforms, penants, and other great items from Roger’s career.
Anyone who is from the tiny town of Fargo will tell you the importance of Maris to that community. Each year, the town hosts a celebrity golf tournament and an auction to raise money for cancer research and care. I remember going to the golf tournaments each year to get autographs of former Yankee teammates of Maris, including Don Larsen, Bobby Richardson, and the recently deceased Tom Tresh.
It is nice to see a piece of my hobby memories still going strong!
