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...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...
...home runs are just as big--at well over 500 ft., several ought to count as a homer and a double. His blasts are cathartic in their destruction, and the damage is sanctified giddily: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sign he cracked with a 545-ft. homer at Busch Stadium proudly wears a giant Band-Aid, and a replacement front-porch handrail outside Wrigley Field goes unpainted to commemorate a stadium-clearing batting practice shot...
Your piece on the release of J.J., the orphaned gray whale raised by SeaWorld, questioned the motivation of Anheuser-Busch, which owns the four SeaWorld theme parks [AMERICAN SCENE, April 13]. You suggested that the effort to help J.J. was inspired by commercial considerations. However, it should be noted that J.J. was brought to SeaWorld at the request of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Our animal-care staff in San Diego has quietly treated and returned to the wild hundreds of other beached marine mammals. No organization in the world today rescues, rehabilitates and releases more marine mammals than...
...planning J.J.'s safe return to the sea, Yip had another concern: pleasing upper management at Anheuser-Busch, which owns the four Sea World theme parks and promotes its beer on the premises. Yip, unaccustomed to the image business, felt the weight of corporate pressure "for everything to go right." Critics of Sea World, who argue that park officials could simply release their captive killer whales if they truly cared about freeing animals, contend J.J. was little more than a cetacean Spuds MacKenzie. "The J.J. event was purely driven by corporate image needs," says Susan Davis, author of the book...
McGwire, who hit 58 last year, begins his first full season with St. Louis when the Cardinals open at Busch Stadium against the Rupert Murdoch-owned Los Angeles Dodgers. Griffey, the AL MVP, and the Seattle Mariners entertain AL champion Cleveland at the Kingdome...