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...next one to write about Mark McGwire--enough cannot be said about...
...Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa put the fannies in the seats, the beers in the hands, the yearbooks in the pocket books and the bosses in the luxury boxes...
Three men in baseball history have hit 50 home runs in back-to-back seasons--Mark McGwire, Ken Griffey Jr. and Babe Ruth. The first two have both done it since 1995; Ruth...
...McGwire isn't the first man to save baseball in the last few years. Sometime around 1995, the phrase "good for the game" entered the vocabulary of sports commentators, and has lingered ever since to honor those admirable players who have taken it upon themselves to save the sport. Cal Ripken Jr. saved the game in 1995, when he passed Lou Gehrig's consecutive games played record at 2,130. The next year, the New York Yankees again saved the game from imminent demise, pulling together a scrappy and inspirational team of rookies, recovering drug addicts and itinerant veterans...
...Mark McGwire's significance to baseball should not be downplayed. He has broken--indeed, shattered--one of the most sacred and enduring marks of baseball, and has brought excitement to a season bereft of pennant races. But he also should not be elevated to something greater than he is. He is a great ballplayer, a hero to millions, but not a savior. The game can take care of itself...