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Take baseball. Didn't they ruin it when they started using designated hitters instead of letting the pitcher strike out for himself? Didn't they ruin the game when they put in lights and started playing at night? Or when they expanded the major leagues from 16 teams to 26...
To cast McGwire as a lying cheat is grotesque. He has raised a lot of money for worthy causes, and his 1998 race with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris' single-season home-run record saved the sport of baseball. Whatever the outcome of the House committee hearings, McGwire will...
McGwire took a deep breath. "If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed," he said about the anticipated questions of his own steroid use. "If he answers yes, he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." So unlike fellow players on the panel, Sammy Sosa and Rafael...
Let’s think about longevity. Babe Ruth’s record was broken by Roger Maris after 34 years. McGwire broke Maris’ after an unbearable 37.
When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's home-run record in 1961, commissioner Ford Frick ruled that because Maris' season was eight games longer than Ruth's had been, the new record deserved an asterisk. Today fans wonder whether the slugging records of recent years will require similar caveats because...