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Maris Would Be ‘Tickled to Death’ to Be Matched by Judge

Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris’s American League record with his 61st home run of the season, and Maris’s former teammate Bobby Richardson sees many parallels.

Aaron Judge, a master of understatement, briefly acknowledged the crowd in Toronto as he was cheered for his 61st home run of the season.Credit...Chris Donovan for The New York Times

Roger Maris was 19 days old when Babe Ruth hit his final home run for the Yankees in 1934. Maris’s career ended decades before Aaron Judge was born in 1992, and he died more than six years earlier, of cancer.