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Tuesday evening, Mark McGwire's 62nd home run made two people famous...
Yesterday afternoon, a crowd of customers roared as Mark McGwire tied Roger Maris' major-league record of 61 home runs...
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...
...images kept flashing through my head last week. The brighter one was filled with the sheer exuberance of a bunch of kids from Toms River, N.J., as they pursued their ultimately successful dream of winning the World Series in Little League Baseball. The darker one stemmed from Mark McGwire's defiant confirmation that he's been taking a supplement called androstenedione, which its manufacturers claim will boost testosterone levels. While it's perfectly legal in the U.S. and the major leagues for McGwire to take the supplements, it sends an absolutely wrong health message to kids everywhere. If he does...