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Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and what we should have known Through the 1998 season, Sammy Sosa was credited with bringing out Mark McGwire's lighter side.
From hometown heroes to family affairs to jaw-dropping feats, we've come up with the greatest Home Run Derby memories of all ...
As detailed in ESPN’s recent documentary “ Long Gone Summer,” Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire will forever be remembered for their parallel bids to break Roger Maris’s 37-year-old single ...
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 ...
In 2005, both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa along with a few other star sluggers of the major leagues were brought in for a Congressional hearing on the issue of steroids in baseball.
Mark McGwire. Sammy Sosa. Home runs. Accusations. What’s the legacy of baseball’s 1998 season? “There is, for me, a mental asterisk there.” Rockies past and present, including Jamey Wright ...
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 ...
Mark McGwire's and Sammy Sosa's 1998 chase of Roger Maris' home run record got the 30 For 30 treatment. Here are six takeaways from it.
Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge are putting on a show similar to what Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa did in 1998. But this chase is ...
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.