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(Sep. 16, 1991) Crowned:Roger Maris
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 77
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<p> 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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