Word: mcgwires
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...hard to tell sometimes. He's not a guy who looks comfortable around attention; in fact he has skirted it all pretty well until now. He stays in suburban St. Louis at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, alone with Spectravision when not with friends and teammates. McGwire hasn't even done much on the endorsements front--though that cap he keeps wearing at press conferences for the Abbey, a fledgling restaurant in Seal Beach, Calif., has got to be worth some kind of meal--and his few public appearances have been less than stellar: his taped spot at last week...
...have to look deep inside McGwire for the real drama. Not that he slumped after his divorce and went to therapy and cried at the press conference where he donated $1 million of his yearly salary to sexually abused children. That's great for flashback stuff, but that's not what made last Tuesday so special. And the horse race with Sammy Sosa was a kind of interesting sidenote. But what makes this gripping is that when the lights came up, McGwire glowed. In a country whose history has included such popular expressions as "predestination," "manifest destiny...
RECORD BREAKERS One reason Mark McGwire's feat has so captured the public's imagination is the record's totemic power: in 71 years, it has been broken only twice. Here are some records of Ruth's era, and a look at how they have withstood the test of time...
HOME RUNS 1927: 60, Babe Ruth 1961: 61, Roger Maris, a 1.7% increase 1998: 62, Mark McGwire...
...length of Mark McGwire's 62 home runs, when added together, equals 26,413 ft. At this rate, how many would he have to hit to attain a length greater than the height of Mount Everest...