By Bob Cudmore/For The Leader-Herald “Will it be a Highland Fling or an Hawaiian Hula that is danced tonight,” wondered Recorder sportswriter Bob Wischmeyer. Amsterdam’s attention that August was focused on competition for the city men’s softball league title between the Hawaiian Klub on Church Street on Reid Hill and Burza’s Highland House on upper Locust Avenue. Nationally in 1961, Roger Maris hit 61 home runs. Mickey Mantle was the highest-paid baseball player, making $75,000 that season. The Yankees went on to win the World Series. Sports teams based at the Hawaiian Klub had been covered on local sports pages…