McGwire
He's 6'5, and roughly 250lbs, and for the most part he is about as average as you or me. Almost except for one major thing, he is the record holder of the most prestigious record in all of pro sports. His name is Mark McGwire and the record is his 70 homeruns, shattering the old record held by the Minnesota native named Roger Maris. On the Major League Baseball's final day of the season Mark McGwire hit two mammoth homeruns to give him 70 on the year, an astonishing 1 home run in every 7.3 at bats. Mark started this quest for the record early in spring training, setting his mind on accomplishing this one goal to be the king of all homerun hitters. On the first day of the season Mark hit his first homerun of the season. On a 1 ball no strike count in the bottom of the fifth inning with two outs and the basses loaded Mark hit a Grand slam off of The LA Dodgers pitcher Ramon Martinez. With that Grand Slam he became just the twenty-first player in Major League history to hit a grand slam in the season opener. Now the quest was on, he was now 61 homeruns from beating the record.Overall Mark hit eleven homeruns in the seasons first twenty-seven games, Mark really turned it on i
After all was said and done Mark hit 62 homeruns in 145 games, his homeruns traveled a total of 26394 feet or 4. On September 5th Mark finally hits his 60th homerun of the year joining Maris and Ruth as the only players in League history to hit sixty or more homeruns. On August 19th Sammy finally catches and passes McGwire hitting his forty-eighth homer of the year. On September eighth, in the forth inning facing Steve Trachsel of the Cubs; Mark came to the plate once more. The Minnesota Twins couldn't get 50,000 total people to show up for three games, and now for the three games Mark was in tow they drew over 150,000 people. Trachsel threw a pitch to McGwire; Mark hit a deep line drive into left field. However Sammy's lead was short lived Mark not only tied Sammy in the eighth inning against the Cubs but he takes the lead in the tenth inning of the same game. On June 5th Mark is now healthy and ready to play, In the first inning Mark came to the plate with a runner at second and one out. That was truly the best season in along time, Mark and Sammy put Major League Baseball on their backs and resuscitated it. The ball was hit deep but everyone including Mark thought the ball wasn't going to leave the park, but then it was gone just clearing the wall. This would go on for the next month or so, Sosa would take the lead and McGwire would come back on the same day and reclaim the lead.
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