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SALVATORE DURANTE, left, and his wife, next to him, at the marriage of one of their sons. (eNS photo)
Historic homer helped their romance bloom . WASHINGTON (CNS) Roger Maris' historic home .run Oct. I, 1961 batted the New York Yankee into baseball fame and sent Salvatore Durante and Rosemarie Calabrese down the aisle. Durante, who was in the stands that day with his sweetheart, Rosemarie, caught the homer which broke Babe Ruth's record. The catch made the 19-year-old delivery boy $5,000 richer and able to afford marriage. Three weeks later. on Oct. 29, the couple were wed in St. Finbar's Church. Brooklyn. The story of the Durantes is one of four vignettes featured on a recent N BC-TV special that presented unreported aspects of frontpage stories that once gripped the nation. The Durantes, who still live in St. Finbar's parish, recalled the piece of sports history and its impact on them in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service. They had been dating about a year by that October, said Mrs. Durante, who bought the tickets for the game. . "I'd never been to a game but wanted to start going because it was one ofthe things he liked," she said. They had box seats, went with his cousin and girlfriend, and for the first two innings, Rosemarie sat in the row behind the other three. At the third inning, Durante suggested they change seats and he would sit alone. Moments later, she said, "Sal stood in his seat and caught the ball." "The day after, we spoke to our parents," Mrs. Durante said. "Three weeks later we were married." After the game Durante tried to give his trophy back to Maris but the athlete told him, "You keep the ball. Make what you can" with it, Durante recalled. "He was a fantastic man, friendly,
thoughtful," said Durante, who met the late home-run king a few times. "When I was to receive the $5,000, the only way I could get it was if Roger Maris flew to Sacramento, Calif., to be in a photo with Sam Gordon," he said. Gordon, a businessman, had agreed to pay the money "if he could personally present Maris with the ball," said Durante. "Roger did me that favor." - Durante, now a school bus -driver, said the reward for the ball amounted to "a year and a haIrs salary back then." . That was 28 years ago and the Durantes still credit the Yankee hero with giving them the start of a happy family that came to include three sons, "all baseball fans," Durante said. The youngest, Sal J r., is a pitcher for Southeastern Louisiana U niversity in Hammond, La. The eldest, Robert, is married, and he and his wife will soon make the Durantes grandparents. The middle son, Thomas, a broker on .Wall Street, still lives at home. The story of Maris' big day is part of their family lore, Durante said. "We get a kick out of it. It's still exciting to see it ,on television every time it comes up," which happens a couple of times a year, he said. . "Maris' record still stands," said Durante. In the 150 years that baseball's been a popular Amercan sport, no one else has hit 61 . home runs in a season. The Durantes are proud of their own record too - a marriage going on three decades. "We get along. We love each other," said Durante. "Whatever problems we had - being in between jobs, sicknesses - we resolved. We had children to take care of." "It wasn't always easy;" he said. "But we managed. We stuck together and we handled it."