Roger was a line-drive hitter, and not a true fly-ball hitter. His hits almost seemed to have tennis-like top-spin rather than backspin. Mantle hit majestic home-runs into the façade. Maris hit line shots into the (then) 296 foot, 3 1/2 foot high wall right field porch. Watch the videos from the era. With the Yankees he hit home runs because of the porch. With St. Louis he hit doubles off the higher and farther wall. Maris was a GREAT athlete and fine ball player. But as Billy Crystal's movie 61* shows, there were a lot of things that came together for both a magical and terrible year for Maris. But the screaming liner at 10 degrees from the right field line going into the seats in about 4 seconds was his trademark. It was usually out before he turned past first.