McGwire has never eclipsed 128 votes (23.7%) in his five years on the ballot.
Ditto for Bonds' 2001 campaign, when he smacked 73 home runs to break McGwire's record.
The Hall of Fame should emulate the McGwire-Sosa spirit and let Roger Maris in.
Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire chased the single season home run in 1997 before huge audiences.
It took the McGwire-Sosa home run race to bring the sport back in favor.
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.
McGwire's runner up, Sammy Sosa, finished with 66, while two other players, Greg Vaughn and Ken Griffey Jr.
None of this is to deny that McGwire's season was spectacular, but it doesn't even compare with Ruth's.
Bonds, Clemens and Sosa along with Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro would be automatics based on their numbers.
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Bonds and Anderson had met in middle school, drifted apart in their late teens, and reconnected in 1998, post-McGwire-and-Sosa.
McGwire was on the ballot for a seventh time and Palmeiro, a third.
Remember the hoopla during the 1998 season, when Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs to break the single season record?
During the 1998 season McGwire admitted to taking oral androstenedione, an androgenic steroid that increases the body's level of testosterone.
Marion Jones, Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire come closest to mirroring the cheating that went on in their respective sports.
Many baseball fans already attach a mental asterisk to Bonds' career home run record or Mark McGwire's single-season home run record.
Recall that in 1998 McGwire and Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa were lighting up the sports world with their home-run-record chase.
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.
And what of the role of steroids, an issue that has dogged Bonds, McGwire and other recent sluggers, in all of this?
As the prideful Bonds watched crowds gather around McGwire, he went nuts.
Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001, breaking McGwire's record of 70.
Oakland's Mark McGwire was hit by pitches twice earlier in the game.
Mr. SCHWARZ: Mark McGwire received 128 votes for a percentage of 23.5.
Unfortunately, the McGwire and Jones options are no longer available to Lance.
They're all still among the top home run hitters ever, of course, though only Aaron, Bonds and McGwire make the all-time top 10.
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.
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