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National League MVP--This is pretty easy. Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa hit .308 with 66 home runs, 158 RBI, 134 runs, and 18 stolen bases. His team also went 90-73 and made the playoffs...
...also was walked 162 times and had 147 RBI. McGwire's proponents can argue that he made the country focus on baseball. His detractors can point out two facts: his team, at 83-79, didn't make the playoffs. He had a lower batting average and fewer RBIs than Sosa...
...season, filled with glories of a cosmic scale. He saved the New York Knights, saved Pop, and broke the bad gamblers with one cascade of the stadium lights. The Knights needed an angel desperately. After 116 wins and counting, the Yankees maybe didn't; after the yearlong McGwire-and-Sosa show, baseball maybe didn't either. But there's always room for one more...
...regular-season at bats, Spencer hit 10 home runs (and three grand slams) just to show McGwire and Sosa how easy it is -- and tossed in six doubles just for fun. Then he crushed one in Game 2 on Wednesday to beat back the Rangers. And Friday -- well, the way Yankees starter David Cone attracts run support, we could see some playoff records fall...
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...