Word: mcgwire
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Baseball memorabilia is having an MVP year. Last week three new treasures were made: Mark McGwire's career homer No. 500, and Tony Gwynn's and Wade Boggs' career hits No. 3,000. Grab one of those balls, and it will be the biggest hit of your life too. The McGwire ball is a certain smash. Months before Big Mac launched his historic bomb, memorabilia dealer Mike Barnes of Festus, Mo., offered $100,000 as an immediate cash advance to the fan who recovered it. Barnes plans to auction the ball. The fan will get the proceeds, which Barnes estimates...
...Mark McGwire says he wants to be a role model -- he just doesn?t like everybody knowing about it. On Wednesday night, just before hitting his 499th career home run (and 42nd of the season), the Ruth-and-Maris-topping Cardinals slugger casually let it drop to a few gathered reporters that oh, by the way, he quit taking Andro four months ago. A year ago, McGwire?s admission that he used the dietary supplement ignited not only sales of the iffy, supposedly muscle-building potion but a firestorm of controversy over his home-run record and his fitness...
...This was actually a smart way to go for him," says TIME reporter Staci Kramer from St. Louis, where McGwire proceeded to smack his 500th and 501st home runs on Thursday night. "He?s really sick of this story, and of all the attention in general. "If he'd made this announcement at the beginning of the season, every game, every home run, would be a running comparison to last season. This way he gets the message out there without a replay of the added daily distraction that he got during most of the record race." This...
...Mark McGwire over Sammy Sosa, 70-66, for the new home-run crown at the end of the best baseball season in memory
...MARK MCGWIRE Fave drug, andro, won't make you stronger but will give you breasts. He really is Babe Ruth...