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Sep 27, 1998 · The Historic Mark McGwire Seventy Home Run Season | Baseball Almanac. Mark McGwire had been known throughout his career as a great home run hitter. In 1998, he changed the record books as the whole world watched. He, and Chicago Cub Sammy Sosa, brought back memories of the 1961 Mickey Mantle / Roger Maris home run race. McGwire eventually "won ...
Apr 24, 2024 · On September 1 he broke Hack Wilson’s 68-year-old National League record (56 home runs), and six days later he tied Maris’s mark. On September 8 McGwire hit his shortest home run (341 feet) of the year to break the record. The following year he became the second player (Sosa was the first) to hit 60 home runs in two seasons. McGwire held ...
Sep 8, 2023 · Exclusive: 25 years later, Mark McGwire still gets emotional reliving 1998 Home Run Chase. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa captured the nation's imagination in the summer of 1998. Twenty-five years ...
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Sep 8, 2023 · On Sept. 8, 1998, Mark McGwire crushed his 62nd home run of the season, passing a long-standing MLB record of 61 home runs in a season held by Roger Maris.
Complete career MLB stats for the St. Louis Cardinals First Baseman Mark McGwire on ESPN. Includes games played, hits and home runs per MLB season.
Mark McGwire played 16 seasons for the Athletics and Cardinals. He had a .263 batting average, 1,626 hits, 583 home runs, 1,414 RBIs and 1,167 runs scored. He won 1 Gold Glove award, the Rookie of the Year award, 3 Silver Slugger awards and 1 World Series.
Sep 8, 2021 · Dingers! Yeah, there is some controversy over Mark McGwire breaking Roger Maris’s home run record, but do we really want to talk about that or do we want to watch him sock a dinger instead? On September 8, 1998 Mark McGwire hit his 62nd homerun of the season to become the Major League Baseball single-season home run record holder. Here it is:
