Word: marises
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In no sport is this more visible than it is in baseball. The other team sports, so dependent on the careful knitting of disparate talents for every act, never isolate the hero quite the way baseball does--especially when it places him alone in the batter's box and challenges...
Unlike the almost unknowably silent DiMaggio, however, McGwire was an accessible and affable presence from the very beginning of his remarkable career. It was in June 1987 that the Los Angeles Times first put the words McGwire, Ruth and Maris in one headline. McGwire's major league life wasn't...
1 MARK MCGWIRE Starting right with spring training, all of baseball was focused on one man. The riddle that every fan pondered (and every reporter posed to McGwire): If Babe Ruth hit 60 homers in 1927, and Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961, could McGwire hit 62 in 1998? McGwire...
The people spoke of eclipsing Roger Maris and the corporate types spoke of rebuilding downtown areas with shiny new old-time baseball arenas. No more cookie-cutters! More ballparks with character; with nooks and crannies and doodads and gobblygooks and plush seats and waiter service for RJR Nabisco's senior...
...since 1908 and make up for what the fans like to call "a bad century." And while Sosa's 62nd homer didn't technically break Maris' 37-year-old record but rather tied McGwire's five-day-old mark, it still seemed undercelebrated: no commissioner at the game, no Marises in the stands, no infrared marked balls, no vintage Corvette. In a letter to commissioner Bud Selig, which Jesse Jackson shared with TIME, he wrote, "Sammy deserves the same infrastructure support [as McGwire], but he has not received it. While he will receive many honors in the coming days...