MLB: Baseball's Seasons — Season 1, Episode 7: 1961: A New Era
Documentary • 60 min • 6 seasons, 32 episodes
Episode synopsis
The Yankees' Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris contend for the single-season home run record. Teams come to Minnesota, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. The Yankees meet the Reds in the World Series.
About MLB: Baseball's Seasons
Baseball's Seasons is a documentary series on MLB Network. Each episode takes a look at a season in the history of Major League Baseball. It first aired January 7, 2009 in the first week of the network's existence. Like a lot of the network's other original programming, Baseball's Seasons airs during baseball's offseason.