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.