It's October 1, 1961, and that's Yankee slugger Roger Maris launching a Tracy Stallard pitch into the right field seats at Yankee Stadium for his record-breaking 61st home run of the season. The blast comes in the 162nd and final game of the '61 season and enables Maris to eclipse the single-season HR record set 34 years earlier by Yankee Babe Ruth in a 154-game campaign. The lineups on the huge Ballantine scoreboard read as follows: For Boston -- Chuck Schilling, 2B; Gary Geiger, CF; Carl Yastrzemski, LF; Frank Malzone, 3B; Lou Clinton, RF; Pete Runnels, 1B; Russ Nixon, C; Pumpsie Green, SS; Stallard, P. For the Yankees -- Bobby Richardson, 2B; Tony Kubek, SS; Roger Maris, CF; Yogi Berra, LF; Johnny Blanchard, RF; Elston Howard, C; Moose Skowron, 1B; Clete Boyer, 3B; Bill Stafford, P. You may notice one contradiction in the piece. On the Ballantine scoreboard, you will see Maris listed as the Yankee center fielder. On the field-level auxiliary scoreboard you will see RF next to Maris' #9. In fact, Maris was the Yankee center fielder in the game. There is, however, irrefutable photographic evidence that RF was indeed posted on the auxiliary scoreboard at the time of the historic at-bat..