Word: mcgwires
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Tuesday evening, Mark McGwire's 62nd home run made two people famous...
Trachsel--the Chicago right-hander who bravely buzzed a belt-high fastball at McGwire for the record--was enjoying a breakthrough season in his young career. At 14-8, he had rebounded nicely from a disappointing 8-12 record in the 1997 campaign, and his 4.31 ERA in a hitter-friendly, expanded league is better than it looks...
...Trachsel, like Zachary, has a chance, albeit a slim one, at October glory, something McGwire, for all his individual success, does not. The record's sexiness notwithstanding, every at-bat for every Cubbie still involved in the pennant chase is at least as significant as every...
BUSCH STADIUM, St. Louis: Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run at 9:18 EST, in his second at bat of his team?s 145th game of the 1998 season. He did it far more quickly than Roger Maris, in far fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight...
...moment was a chance to gaze backward, to 1961, to 1927, to the baseball heroes of happier times. And the game paused, with a leisurely euphoria, as fans of baseball and America took a good long look. But as McGwire hugged Sammy Sosa, lifting the Chicago Cub toward the heavens as fireworks went off above their heads, we were reminded: The future waits. Neither the home run race nor the 1998 season is over yet, and history is not yet done being made...