Through the 1998 season, Sammy Sosa was credited with bringing out Mark McGwire's lighter side. He also pushed him, because beating Roger Maris had become secondary to beating Sammy Sosa.

From hometown heroes to family affairs to jaw-dropping feats, we've come up with the greatest Home Run Derby memories of all ...

Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals (R) and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs (L) laugh during a pregame press conference at Busch Stadium 07 September in St. Louis, Missouri.

Sammy Sosa once reminisced about his iconic home run rivalry with Mark McGwire In his career, seven-time All-Star Sammy Sosa has hit 609 home runs. Sosa had three seasons with the Chicago Cubs in ...

MLB Draft features eight prospects with famous fathers who previously played in the big leagues, highlighting a generational ...

Since home run tracking data became more accurate with Statcast, however, a different player claims the title of longest home run in the Derby. In 2021, nearly the entire field of Derby hitters took ...

Bernie Lincicome’s recent column on Sammy Sosa and the Cubs was good. In Geneva, during the Home Run Show between Sosa and Mark McGwire, there was a sign on a Randall Road fence that kept up ...

MARK MCGWIRE TALKED a lot about The Baseball Gods during his playing career, a sure sign of someone who treats the game with a solemnity it doesn't deserve. He was never more publicly grave than ...

By 1998, when the Cubs’ Sammy Sosa and the Cardinals’ Mark McGwire started the slugfest that captivated the nation, I should have known better.After all, what was then nearly two decades of ...

Through the 1998 season, Sammy Sosa was credited with bringing out Mark McGwire's lighter side. He also pushed him, because beating Roger Maris had become secondary to beating Sammy Sosa.