NEW YORK -- The grainy, black-and-white images of Roger Maris hitting his record-breaking 61st home run flickered across Yankee Stadium's high-definition video screen on Saturday. Fifty-five years to the date of the event, the slugger's family gathered at home plate and said they felt goosebumps.
Wearing pinstriped jerseys with their father's No. 9 on the back, Maris' four sons watched the familiar sequence -- dad's drive into the right-field seats at the old Stadium off Red Sox pitcher Tracy Stallard, then Phil Rizzuto narrating the trip around the bases before Maris was pushed out of the dugout by his teammates for a curtain call.