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...other player, any other time. Most sportswriters think that he'll swipe the MVP award from McGwire and that he is starting to cut into his fan base. Give credit to the barrage of four homers in three days that broke Roger Maris' 37-year-old single-season home-run record, just five days after McGwire. And he has made it all such fun to watch...
...special attached page. We did it during the Gulf War, and this week we do it with a photo of Mark McGwire's record-breaking home run. You can find it as part of our story in Sports by Joel Stein (who wrote the cover story on the home-run race seven weeks...
...McGwire if he's going to break the record--as if he were going to break out some pro-wrestling rant like "Maris? Maris was a whiny schoolgirl compared to me. Boo-ya." Or look at the opening of the season, when the SportsCenter announcers started to calculate his home-run pace. Sports Illustrated put him on the cover--even before opening day. If ever a man was set up for failure, it was McGwire...
...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...
...fizz does the 6-ft. 5-in., 250-lb. McGwire need? He's always been a hefty guy, a goateed Gigantor, and his 49 homers in 1987, his first full season, are a rookie record. In 1995 he broke Ruth's season record, established 75 years before, for highest home-run percentage; his career percentage is second only to Ruth's. Besides, his four missiles against the Florida Marlins last week averaged an astral 469 ft., which is greater even than the circumference of his biceps. With or without supplements, McGwire is pure protein power: casein...