{"id":27647,"date":"2026-06-26T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/27647\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:29:29","slug":"today-in-history-1984-photos-mlb-stars-shine-in-maris-shanley-golf-tournament-inforum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/27647\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History, 1984: Photos: MLB stars shine in Maris-Shanley Golf Tournament &#8211; InForum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1984, baseball legends Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron and Bob Allison drew crowds of autograph-seeking fans at the Maris-Shanley Celebrity Golf Tournament near Hickson, North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day:<\/p>\n<p>Baseball stars of yesteryear tried their luck at golf Monday afternoon at the Oxbow Country Club near Hickson, N.D.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure was on former New York Yankees Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron and former Minnesota Twin Bob Allison.<\/p>\n<p>\n            See more history at Newspapers.com\n        <\/p>\n<p>Not necessarily to perform well on the course, but to perform well with the pen.<\/p>\n<p>Fans swarmed them at every available break to get autographs on baseballs, baseball cards, golf score cards and other mementos.<\/p>\n<p>Amid it all, the five performed these tasks with humor and grace in between the wind swept 18-hole Maris-Shanley Celebrity Golf Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"june_26_photos2.jpg\"  width=\"840\" height=\"1566\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/1964b1a\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/993x1851+0+0\/resize\/840x1566!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fed%2Fbc%2F275cde2d430faf0dd43bc9537186%2Fjune-26-photos2.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxNTY2cHgiIHdpZHRoPSI4NDBweCI+PC9zdmc+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A photo featured in The Forum on June 26, 1984. Newspapers.com<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"june_26_photos.jpg\"  width=\"840\" height=\"1094\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/de63094\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2178x2836+0+0\/resize\/840x1094!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fcb%2F82%2F06a0121f4c3792b4a936632f3849%2Fjune-26-photos.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDk0cHgiIHdpZHRoPSI4NDBweCI+PC9zdmc+\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos featured in The Forum on June 26, 1984. Newspapers.com<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-101318765-11570746?url=https:\/\/inforum.newspapers.com\/?xid=6938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/970x250-fargo-thearchives-launch-2025-digital1.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/kate-almquist\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Kate Almquist\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/31f0a36\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3066x3066+0+0\/resize\/100x100!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fa1%2F10%2F46f00192468682a814575e5d644f%2Fkalmquist.jpg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDBweCIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Kate Almquist is the social media manager for InForum. After working as an intern, she joined The Forum full time starting in January 2022. Readers can reach her at kalmquist@forumcomm.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this day in 1984, baseball legends Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron and Bob Allison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,11086,11087,11088,5804,11089,11090],"class_list":["post-27647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-golf","tag-maris-shanley-golf-tournament","tag-maris-shanley-golf-tournament-1984","tag-mickey-mantle","tag-mlb","tag-north-dakota-history","tag-roger-maris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}