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McGwire's neck-deep immersion in baseball is partly a response to the void he felt without it. In 2001, he retired with 586 home runs and a record ratio of one homer every 10.61 at-bats.
This week, the College Baseball Hall of Fame announced its 2025 class. Among this year’s inductees was a name quite familiar ...
Given what all is known now about Major League Baseball's epic home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in 1998, it might be hard to respect what they did together for the game for one ...
EXCLUSIVE: 25 years later, Mark McGwire still gets emotional reliving 1998 Home Run Chase. McGwire, who hit 583 home runs, and Sosa, who slugged 609, were both roundly rejected by Hall of Fame voters.
In 1998, Mark McGwire spearheaded a movement that saved baseball from irrelevancy. If that doesn’t ensure him a guaranteed seat in the Hall of Fame, I don’t know what would.
— Mark McGwire And with that cheeky preface to whet our appetite for destruction, Mr. Mark McGwire sang like a canary for interviewer Bob Costas on the MLB Network on Monday night.
Former MLB player Mark McGwire once admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in the '90s. After the 1989 season, McGwire claimed that he briefly experimented with steroids, but did not start ...
Jose Canseco accused Mark McGwire of using performance-enhancing drugs in his 2005 book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, and the two have not been on friendly ...
Mark McGwire had acute precision as a batter which made him deliver a .394 on-base percentage (OBP) during his baseball career. He led the majors in bases on balls twice. He created a career ...
Life in baseball has been unique for Max. Although he’s never seen him play professionally, his father, Mark McGwire, is one of the most significant figures in MLB history.
Mark McGwire said he is too busy with his current job to think about the next step of his career. Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports Wil Myers was an impressionable 7-year-old in the summer of 1998 ...