Word: 62nd
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...Mark McGwire's unexpected triumphs last week was exposing the intricacies of the gift tax. The guy who grabbed Big Mac's 62nd home-run ball won't be saddled with a tax bill for returning it to the slugger, but you might not want to be so generous with your friends. Once a gift giver surpasses a $625,000 lifetime limit (part of his estate-tax exemption), he'll have to pay taxes each year on any gifts he hands out that are worth more than...
...with Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa when he hit a 385-foot drive to left center off the Pittsburgh Pirates' Jason Christiansen. (The Pirates won the first game of the doubleheader, 8-6.) McGwire had been in a 3-for-18 slump with three singles since hitting his 62nd home run on Sept. 8 to break Roger Maris's 37-year-old record...
Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season at home on Sunday to pass Roger Maris and pull into a tie with Mark McGwire for the most homers in a single baseball season. Sosa hit No. 62 in the ninth inning off Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Eric Plunk. (The Cubs won the game, 11-10, in 10 innings.) Both Sosa and McGwire have 12 games remaining this season...
Tuesday evening, Mark McGwire's 62nd home run made two people famous...
BUSCH STADIUM, St. Louis: Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run at 9:18 EST, in his second at bat of his team?s 145th game of the 1998 season. He did it far more quickly than Roger Maris, in far fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight...