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Carl Morris, statistics professor, Harvard: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and Mark McGwire's record of one homer per 7.27 at bats will last well into the next century. The best home-run hitters, playing in Colorado, might hit more than 70. But McGwire hit his 70 in just 509 at bats, with 33% more homers per at bat than Sammy Sosa and 17% more than Ruth's previous major league record...
...Cover, professor, Stanford: Ted Williams would have generated 19.62 runs per game in 1941 if he had batted in all nine places in the lineup. Babe Ruth would have generated 19.13 runs per game in 1923, but no modern player is close. McGwire is consistently around 13, and Sosa is 8.3 this year...
Some will prefer St. Louis first baseman Mark McGwire, who hit.299 with an incredible total of 70 homers. He also was walked 162 times and had 147 RBI. McGwire's proponents can argue that he made the country focus on baseball. His detractors can point out two facts: his team, at 83-79, didn't make the playoffs. He had a lower batting average and fewer RBIs than Sosa...
...home run race captured the country's attention as Sosa and McGwire went back and forth. It wasn't just a sports story, it was a national story that elevated baseball to its former status as America's game...
...season, filled with glories of a cosmic scale. He saved the New York Knights, saved Pop, and broke the bad gamblers with one cascade of the stadium lights. The Knights needed an angel desperately. After 116 wins and counting, the Yankees maybe didn't; after the yearlong McGwire-and-Sosa show, baseball maybe didn't either. But there's always room for one more...