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Carl Morris, statistics professor, Harvard: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and Mark McGwire's record of one homer per 7.27 at bats will last well into the next century. The best home-run hitters, playing in Colorado, might hit more than 70. But McGwire hit his 70 in just 509 at bats, with 33% more homers per at bat than Sammy Sosa and 17% more than Ruth's previous major league record...
...Darryl's prognosis for a full recovery is good. But we're worried all the same. For years Darryl stood as a youthful beacon of strength in Shea Stadium's right field. After defeating substance abuse, he won us back as a Yankee. Now he faces his toughest at-bat yet. Our eyes are on the bleachers. GEOFFREY C. UPTON
While there, McGwire came to bat and drilled a foul ball into the Cubs' bullpen. The Cubs' pitching coach saw my A's shirt and hat and said, "You want this...
...have a spirited, enlightened discussion when both sides have set up their snow forts on each side of the lawn, nobody venturing forth into the middle lest he or she be pelted by a barrage of threats, epithets, and slurs, all delivered with the subtlety of a baseball bat over the head...
...pressure seemed unendurable, he started hitting home runs at a pace never before seen: seven in eight games. The weekend before the broken record, the McGwire alert was sounded: a press corps 600 strong went to St. Louis, McGwire's 10-year-old son flew in to be bat boy, and it seemed that everyone in the world with the last name of Maris had to put his or her life on hold to sit in Busch Stadium. "He put more pressure on himself that day than any other time I've seen him," Tony LaRussa, who has managed McGwire...