Our 1961 baseball season beat writer filed this report:
> On April 26, 1961, Roger Maris hit his first home-run, and first extra base
hit, of the season. It came in his 11th game and his 33rd at-bat. Maris wasn't
just having a bad start in terms of the long ball, either. His batting average
coming into the April 26 game was .161. He had, however, walked seven times,
giving him an on-base percentage of .308. Maris was faring so poorly that
Ralph Houk, the new Yankee manager, dropped him to seventh in the batting
order. The Yankee order for the April 26 game in Detroit was: (1) Bobby
Richardson, (2) Tony Kubek, (3) Hector Lopez, (4) Mickey Mantle, (5) Bill
Skowron, (6) Elston Howard, (7) Maris, (8) Deron Johnson, (9) Whitey Ford.
Maris delivered his home run in the fifth inning off of veteran right-hander
Paul Foytack. The solo shot gave Ford and the Yankees an 8-5 lead. Ford, who
previously had been staked to a 6-0 lead, was unable to make the 8-5 lead
stand up. In fact, after the Tigers erupted for five runs in the bottom of the
seventh inning, ...
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