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...suicide squeeze is cool, and the double steal is all right, but a guy who can smack the bejeezus out of a ball--that's the guy for us. Like most great things American, the home run deconstructs strategy with a beautiful act of aggression. So Mark McGwire, 250 lbs. of muscle in a game full of the fat and unfit, doesn't really shock when he sends the ball more than 500 ft. And Ken Griffey Jr., hat backwards, grin cocksure, seems almost bored as he gently taps homers over the fence. The crowd expects it, the crowd gets...
...despite all this ineptitude, baseball accidentally saved itself, with a mixture of talent and nostalgia. The geriatric sport has suddenly remembered how to tell its own story. ESPN ads feature not McGwire or the eminently marketable Griffey, but a Ty Cobb impersonator, who is oddly recognizable for a guy who hasn't played a game since...
...million Amount turned down by Mark McGwire to wear only Nike apparel while in uniform...
...himself), and that was an era in which baseball had a near monopoly on the best professional athletes. The capstone to the Ruth argument is the five-season stretch during which he was among baseball's best pitchers before switching full time to the outfield. He was Mark McGwire, Tony Gwynn and Greg Maddux all rolled into...
Baseball is back, and the new season is full of promise. We at Dartboard will be watching closely as Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr. chase Roger Maris' home run record, the Milwaukee Brewers get acquainted to the National League and the Yankees look to justify their astronomical payroll with a return to the World Series...