IRVINE, Calif. — Mark McGwire, sitting in the backyard of his sprawling estate overlooking the rolling hills, canyon and a golf course, watches the 2-minute, 28-second video on this visitor’s cell ...

Home run record breaker wishes he never doped. Jan. 11, 2010— -- When Mark McGwire broke the single season home run record back in 1998, it was electrifying. But now we know that when McGwire ...

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Chicago Cubs fans were grieving the death of longtime announcer and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” crooner Harry Caray on Opening Day in 1998. Soon, they would have a reason to smile. The record for ...

As Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa made their run at Roger Maris' single-season home run record in 1998, Big Mac thought he faced a higher level of scrutiny as the year unfolded. The most recent ...

When you think about slugger Mark McGwire playing at Jacobs/Progressive Field, everyone recalls the 485-foot bomb that he hit in 1997 that hit the Budweiser sign by where drummer John Adams sits. What ...

McGwire's prodigious power had been on display since he set the rookie record of 49 in 1987, but when he finished the '97 season with 58—a number hindered in part by a three-week drought during which ...

After a lengthy absence from Bleacher Report, I've returned to the sportswriting arena. Unfortunately, it's to write an article that plays it close to the vest. It's about none other than Big Mac, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jamey Wright saw Sammy Sosa’s power firsthand. Well, maybe not so much saw it as heard it. “He hit a ball once and it went right by my ear,” the former ...

Twenty years later, Mark McGwire still believes he didn’t need performance-enhancing drugs to hit 70 home runs. The former Cardinals slugger went deep 70 times and tallied 147 RBI during the season he ...

Chip Caray’s calls will take you there, back to that magical summer of 1998 when those three words spilled from his mouth with stunning regularity. That call will transport you back to Sammy Sosa’s ...