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It wasn't supposed to be this easy. Baseball isn't easy; ask Michael Jordan. And hitting a home run can be very hard; ask Larry Bowa, who did it just 15 times in 16 productive major-league years. Think about it. You swing at a tiny ball thrown by...
So why, in major-league baseball's 123rd year, are two men--Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs' Sammy Sosa--suddenly destined to cream the home-run record as if it were a pitiful little Rawlings sphere? And, dammit, with so little suspense! Since 1961...
0 Number of intentional walks received by Roger Maris in his record-setting season
Even Stallard, the never-would-be who served up Roger Maris's 61st and posted a 6-17 record with the Mets two years later, then lost 20 games in 1964, is unfair company.
Let no one diminish Mac's achievement. The duration of Maris's record alone speaks to its elusiveness. But come October, Steve Trachsel and Sammy Sosa would do well to remember Tom Zachary--who served up baseball's greatest gopher ball but still reached its pinnacle.