Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

But one thing is for certain: There is no dissension between Mantle, the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1956 and 1957, and Maris, the MVP in 1960.

What is surprising and pleasant is that Mantle and Maris, under constant pressure from writers and photographers, are trying to be cooperative.

Of the two, Mantle is by nature the less outgoing, Maris the more outspoken.

By his own confession, Maris is an angry young man.

Neither Mantle nor Maris is totally devoted to baseball above all else.

( `` One of the reasons they get along fine '', says a sportswriter who is friendly with the two men, `` is that both realize Mantle is head-and-shoulders above Maris ''.

" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.

At that date it is quite easy to find American films such as Stella Maris in which only fades are used.

An older factor in Kansas City-New York relations is the " special relationship " between the Yankees and the Kansas City A's during the 1950s, in which Kansas City's best players ( such as Roger Maris and Ralph Terry ) were repeatedly sent to New York with little compensation.

One appears to be divinities of an indigenous nature: Catha and Usil, the sun ; Tivr, the moon ; Selvans, a civil god ; Turan, the goddess of love ; Laran, the god of war ; Leinth, the goddess of death ; Maris ; Thalna ; Turms ; and the ever-popular Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.

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In Frasier, Maris Crane is an unseen character, and the producers of Frasier asked that the scene be removed.

Via Maris is the modern name for an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia — modern day Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.

" Via Maris " is Latin and means " the Way of the Sea ".

One appears to be lesser divinities of an indigenous origin: Catha and Usil, the sun, Tivr, the moon, Selvans, a civil god, Turan, the goddess of love, Laran, the god of war, Leinth, the goddess of death, Maris, Thalna, Turms and the god Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.

She is represented with Our lady of Regla and Stella Maris.

Tatar is also native for some thousands of Maris.

There are several facts that support this view: there are just two Marian songs in the whole work ( Audi Coelum and Ave Maris Stella ); the sonata could very easily be rearranged to any saint's name ; and the text of the Duo Seraphim is connected with Saint Barbara ( because she is generally connected with Trinity ).

In 1961, the year Maris broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, Bauer, at 38 years of age was coming to the end of the line in his playing career.

Neither Mantle nor Maris, understandably, will predict 60 home runs for himself.

Mantle, Maris, and Cerv probably share one major-league record already: Among them, they have fifteen children -- eight for Cerv, four for Mantle, and three for Maris.

If laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track.

for Maris so far this year ).

After the Maris trade, Lane acquired 25-year old Norm Cash from the White Sox for Minnie Miñoso and then traded him to Detroit before he ever played a game for the Indians ; Cash went on to hit over 350 home runs for the Tigers.

Other recurring themes include the breakdown of Niles ' marriage to the never-seen Maris, Frasier's search for love, Martin's new life after retirement and injury, and the various attempts by the two brothers to gain acceptance into Seattle's cultural elite.

He hit 58 home runs in 1938, equaling Jimmie Foxx's mark for the most home runs in one season by any player between 1927 ( when Babe Ruth set a record of 60 ) and 1961 ( when Roger Maris surpassed it ).

In 1998, Sosa and Mark McGwire achieved national fame for their home run-hitting prowess in pursuit of Roger Maris ' home run record.

It was in this season that both Sosa and Mark McGwire were involved in the " home run record chase ", when both players ' prowess for hitting home runs drew national attention as they attempted to pass Roger Maris ' single season home run mark of 61 home runs that had stood since.

The Stella Maris gondola lift cable car consists of six cabins and connects Bat Galim on the coast to the Stella Maris observation deck and monastery atop Mount Carmel ; although mainly for tourism purposes.

In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors.

Jackson hit 47 home runs in 1969, and was briefly ahead of the pace that Roger Maris set when he broke the single-season record for home runs with 61 in 1961, and that of Babe Ruth when he set the previous record of 60 in 1927.

This was a talent that Maris, a blunt-spoken upper-Midwesterner, was never willing or able to cultivate ; as a result, he wore the " surly " jacket for his duration with the Yankees.

" The press seemed to root for Mantle and to belittle Maris.

On Friday, Roger Maris, the Yankee outfielder and winner of the American League's most-valuable-player award, will meet with Roy Hamey, the general manager.

When Roger Eugene Maris, Mantle's muscular teammate, powers four home runs in a double-header, his performance merits awe.

After 108 games in 1961, Mickey Mantle has 43, Roger Maris 41.

Mantle, Maris, and Bob Cerv, a utility outfielder, share an apartment in Jamaica, Long Island, not far from New York International Airport.

Maris sleeps on a green studio couch in the living room.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

As roommates, teammates, and home-run mates, Mantle, 29, who broke in with the Yankees ten years ago, and Maris, 26, who came to the Yankees from Kansas City two years ago, have strikingly similar backgrounds.

as halfbacks, both came close to playing football at the University of Oklahoma ( `` Sometimes in the minors '', Maris recalls, `` I wished I had gone to Oklahoma '' ).

Maris purchases $100 suits from Simpson's in New York.

Neither Mantle nor Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's `` Tropic of Cancer ''.

A reporter asked Maris recently.

`` To tell you the truth '', Maris said, `` Mickey don't talk much ''.

Maris, in talking to reporters, tries to answer all questions candidly and fully, but on rare occasions, he shuns newsmen.

( Farrell did -- and Maris led the team to victory in the Little World Series.

`` When I was a kid '', Maris told a sportswriter last week, `` I used to follow Williams every day in the box score, just to see whether he got a hit or not ''.

Said Maris.