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What makes Aaron Judge special? MLB’s top sluggers weigh in as Yankee great chases history.

NEW YORK — Jim Thome’s 14-year-old son, Landon, has come down to breakfast at the Thome household most mornings this baseball season with a question for his old man, the fearsome Hall of Fame slugger who smacked 612 home runs during his playing career:

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No hint that Aaron Judge is dirty, but shouldn’t the steroid era have made us more skeptical?

Yankees star sets American League record with 62nd home run.

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SI:AM | Aaron Judge Finally Did It

He was running out of games to pass Roger Maris but came through with No. 62 in Game 161.

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Yankees’ Aaron Judge blasts 62nd home run to set American League record

Roger Maris had held the previous mark of 61, which he set in 1961.

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Baseball World Debates True Home Run King After Judge Hits No. 62

Some observers consider Aaron Judge the clean home run king because Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are associated with performance-enhancing drugs.

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Yankees' Aaron Judge sets new American League home run record

The outfielder's 62nd home run of the season broke Roger Maris' record set in 1961.

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Aaron Judge hits home run #62 and makes baseball history

The New York Yankees' star outfielder has broken the 61-year-old record set by fellow Yankee Roger Maris back in 1961.

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Aaron Judge Sets AL Record With 62nd Home Run

Judge moves past Roger Maris to stand alone atop the American League’s single-season list.

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Coverage of Aaron Judge’s home-run chase puts Len Kasper’s move to radio in focus

For those who still don’t accept Kasper’s rationale for leaving Cubs TV for White Sox radio nearly two years ago, consider what happened in baseball broadcasting last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Roger Maris Jr. calls Aaron Judge the true home run king

Judge tied the AL record with his 61st homer on Wednesday. Maris Jr. earlier said he considers the home run totals held by Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds to be illegitimate. “I think most people do.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Aaron Judge Makes History, but 61 Is Not the Record

Barry Bonds holds the single-season record, yet what the Yankees star has accomplished is still worth celebrating.

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Aaron Judge hits 61st home run of season, ties Roger Maris’ AL record as Yankees beat Blue Jays

TORONTO — After seven games and eight days without a home run, the frustration started to show. In a 3-2 count, in the seventh inning of a tie game, Aaron Judge stepped back and took a little stroll behind the batter’s box. He took a deep breath as he settled…

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Yankees Aaron Judge ties single-season AL record with 61st home run

Only five other players have hit 60 or more home runs in a single season.

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Aaron Judge Ties Roger Maris With Historic 61st Home Run

Judge adds another historic milestone to his incredible season.

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Yankees star Judge hits 61st home run, ties Maris' AL record

Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris’ American League record of 61 home runs in a season, going deep for the New York Yankees against the Toronto Blue Jays

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Why the home run chases of today are different from the late '90s and early 2000s

For many baseball fans, the excitement over Aaron Judge, Albert Pujols and the milestones they've been chasing has evoked bittersweet memories of the home run chases of baseball's "steroid era."

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Aaron Judge Ties Roger Maris With Historic 61st Home Run

Judge adds another historic milestone to his incredible season.

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The single-season MLB record for most home runs: Where Aaron Judge lands

Where Judge lands on this list of huge home run seasons.

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Two of baseball's biggest stars are closing in on major home run marks

The Yankees' Aaron Judge and the Cardinals' Albert Pujols are each closing in on a major home run milestone, bringing life to every at-bat as their teams near the end of the regular season.

Chicago Sun-Times

Yankees’ Aaron Judge now two homers shy of Roger Maris’ AL record

Judge’s 11th multihomer game tied the season record set by Detroit’s Hank Greenberg in 1938 and matched by the Cubs’ Sammy Sosa in 1998.

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SI:AM | The U.S. Open Is on the Verge of a Historic Finish

Don’t worry, we’re not ignoring NFL Week 1.

Chicago Sun-Times

Home-run stud Aaron Judge is doing it the right way — we think

Yankee seems squeaky-clean, so we can go ahead and call him the homer king if he passes Maris

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What History Tells Us About Aaron Judge’s Pursuit of 61 Home Runs

Let’s look at how his season compares to the other players who were on similar homer paces entering September.

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Aaron Judge hits homer No. 49, Gerrit Cole strikes out 11 as Yankees surge continues with 3-2 win over A’s

OAKLAND, Calif. — Aaron Judge is back on track. The New York Yankees slugger, who snapped a nine-game homer drought earlier this week, hit his third home run in the last four games Friday night as the Bombers beat the A’s 3-2 at the Coliseum.

Chicago Sun-Times

Willson Contreras is 17th player with at least 4 seasons of 20 or more homers with Cubs

Contreras joins Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javy Baez as the fourth player from the 2016 World Series champs to accomplish the feat.

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