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...newsworthy events, TIME sometimes produces a special attached page. We did it during the Gulf War, and this week we do it with a photo of Mark McGwire's record-breaking home run. You can find it as part of our story in Sports by Joel Stein (who wrote the cover story on the home-run race seven weeks...
...climax to the story, it was a little weak. There was no conflict, no point of dramatic tension, not even a gaudy parabola for the money shot. On Monday, after fans had waited 37 years, Mark McGwire hit his record-tying 61st home run of the season, and the next night he showed up for his prime-time network-television special to hit No. 62. The record-breaking shot was McGwire's shortest, lamest homer of the year. Afterward, we looked to the media to be told what the moral significance was. It was like someone brought in the writers...
...good director knows that if you're going to eke out some drama, you've got to zoom in on the details. So go back to spring training, when every sports reporter is flying into Jupiter, Fla., to ask McGwire if he's going to break the record--as if he were going to break out some pro-wrestling rant like "Maris? Maris was a whiny schoolgirl compared to me. Boo-ya." Or look at the opening of the season, when the SportsCenter announcers started to calculate his home-run pace. Sports Illustrated put him on the cover--even before...
...McGwire responded first by grimly ignoring the pressure: he wouldn't discuss the record, threatened to end the batting- practice show and, for a short stint, denied some interview requests. Then--and here's the part of the film where we cue the Aerosmith ballad--he internalized the pressure and turned it into motivation. He held press conferences before every road series. He started to smile at reporters. By the end, when the fans' flashbulbs made the park seem like it was being pelted by a summer lightning storm, he stood in the on-deck circle with his eyes closed...
...alone every day," said Sammy Sosa after fellow Cub Gary Gaetti won Thursday's game for the wild-card hopefuls. How about every other day? The Cubs host a three-game set with the Reds (and by proxy the Mets) starting Friday, while Mark McGwire will spend the next three days chasing sliders in Milwaukee against the Brewers. With six games between them, against at-best-mediocre competition, figure on one or both of these guys doing something stratospheric by Monday...