Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire chased the single season home run in 1997 before huge audiences.
Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi fall into this tent.
And I mentioned that Mark McGwire was the first major steroid suspect to appear on a ballot.
Something had to revive baseball, and it came in the form of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.
Bonds, Clemens and Sosa along with Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro would be automatics based on their numbers.
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Remember the hoopla during the 1998 season, when Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs to break the single season record?
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Many baseball fans already attach a mental asterisk to Bonds' career home run record or Mark McGwire's single-season home run record.
Mark McGwire, who admitted to his mistake and showed remorse, has actually found an on-ramp back into baseball with the St.
Then saviors appeared in the form of sluggers with the bodies of Greek gods: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds.
Oakland's Mark McGwire was hit by pitches twice earlier in the game.
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It was the era in which Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens were the marquee players in Major League Baseball.
It began after the '98 baseball season after he had seen the fuss that was made over Mark McGwire when McGwire broke Maris's record.
That puts him in arrears of peers Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, who both homered about three times more often than an average player.
Other players on the ballot who were linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs over the past two decades included Mark McGwire, the St.
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Other suspected or admitted PED users eligible for induction such as Mark McGwire (16.9%) and Rafael Palmeiro (8.8%) were similarly distant from the required 75%.
In 1998, after Mark McGwire admitted to doping while setting his home-run record, he was attacked in the press and later blackballed from the Hall of Fame.
One needs only look to the late 1990s, when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa put on two of the most memorable baseball seasons in 1998 and 1999.
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Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire and Sosa, both trying to break the record of 61 homers in a year set by Roger Maris of the New York Yankees.
On September 8th Mark McGwire of the St Louis Cardinals surpassed this feat, hitting his 62nd home run before 44, 000 home fans and millions more Americans watching on television.
Several stars named in the report could pay the price in Cooperstown, in much the same way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year, merely on suspicion of steroid use.
While the gaudy offensive statistics of Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire captivated and stupefied millions of baseball fans running through the turnstiles, a select crop of pitchers began to dominate and overwhelm opposing hitters.
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Not Sammy Sosa or Mark McGwire.
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