Word: mcgwire
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them turn into jerks. But Sosa, 29, got his paycheck and relaxed. He let us see the generous, fun and classy person he is. And he performed. With a league-leading 154 RBIs, a .309 average and the most home runs of any other major leaguer, except Mark McGwire (he had 63 to McGwire's 64 at week's end), has ever hit, Sosa has had one of the best offensive years of any 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...
...Dominican Republic. "Oh, it was big," he says, using his large hands to illustrate an ostentatious circle. "Sometimes you do some things, and it's just a situation. And after a while you think, 'Wow, I shouldn't have done that.'" Now, he deflects compliments by calling McGwire--and just about everybody else...
...LOUIS: Once again, history got itself a nice round number -- courtesy of Mark McGwire. With all due respect to the wild-card playoff game that Sammy Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically...
...Sosa fans were the fans of the underdog; he was black, he was Dominican, and he was pill-free. He had the little body (by comparison) and the big smile. Teddy-bear-on-the-inside or not, McGwire was the hulk. The one with the glower. The one who was supposed to break Maris's record, if you could say that about anyone, and in that way it turned out right. Who but McGwire, after all, could not just pass Maris, not just leave the pesky Sosa behind, but keep piling on the homers until he hit a nice round...
Home Run Count Mark McGwire 65 Sammy Sosa 65 Games Remaining...