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- CROWNED. Roger Maris, Yankee slugger and rifle-armed right
- fielder; as major-league baseball's undisputed single-season
- home-run king. In 1961 Maris hit 61 homers, surpassing Babe
- Ruth's 1927 mark of 60. But Ford Frick, then commissioner of
- baseball, ruled that Maris had technically not broken Ruth's
- record, since the Babe reached his total during the old 154-game
- season while Maris did not hit his 61st until the final day of
- the modern 162-game season. Thus Maris' achievement went into
- the books with a special annotation. Last week, following a vote
- by major-league baseball's committee for statistical accuracy,
- Maris, who died in 1985 at 51, gained undisputed recognition.
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