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...over. Michael Jordan has retired, probably for good this time. The greatest basketball player ever, and allegedly the one irreplaceable star in the National Basketball Association, has left the game. But no one is irreplaceable. News of Jordan's retirement broke the same day that baseballs hit by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were auctioned off for far more than balls hit by all-time home run king Hank Aaron and former single season home-run leaders Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. This is a vast and rich nation full of talented people in all fields who keep turning...
...real home run derby begins on Tuesday: eBay, the online auction house, is selling off home run balls from Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. What will we hear for Nos. 61, 63, 67 and 70 from McGwire, along with Sosa's 61st, 64th, and 66th? EBay has been accepting bids online for the past week; offline partner Guernsey's Auction House is using those as the floor for its live auction in Madison Square Garden starting at noon Eastern time...
Another intriguing possibility was the gentle slugger Mark McGwire. When he came to our offices in November to be interviewed and photographed, normally nonchalant journalists lined the corridors just to catch his smile. We allowed ourselves to hope that years hence, we might recall 1998 for the entry he blasted into the record books, the way 1961 is associated with Roger Maris. No such luck. But we felt that his tale served as a sweet antidote to the big story of the year, so you can read in this issue Joel Stein's intimate profile, Dan Okrent's appreciation...
Early in this year's baseball season, I would hardly have imagined that it would be a historic home-run race with Mark McGwire that would show me the example you can be to others when you push your individual limits...
Early in the season, people were looking at McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr. to hit a lot of homers, but after I slugged 20 in June, I found myself not far behind. While I was happy to be on a roll, I was more pleased that my team was winning. By late July, as I passed Ken, the media started to hype a rivalry between Mark and me. If there was one, it was the best kind--friendly and professional. I motivated Mark and he motivated me. That's what good competition is all about--two people trying...