Mark McGuire
This is a He's 6'5, and roughly 250lbs, 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 in the month of May. In his next twenty-five games in the month of May, Mark hit sixteen homeruns giving him twenty-seven homeruns so far. With his sixteen homeruns in May, McGwire tied Mickey Mantle for the most ho
------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Mark was now becoming the biggest draw all around the majors, teams who normally couldn't give tickets away were now selling out there stadiums when Mark came to town. On September eighth, in the forth inning facing Steve Trachsel of the Cubs; Mark came to the plate once more. 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. Sammy Sosa for the Chicago Cubs was on a tear hitting twenty homeruns in July to get him close to McGwire in the Homerun race. The Minnesota Twins could!n'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. Everyone was swarming to ballparks all around the league to get a chance to see Mark hit a homerun. Trachsel threw a pitch to McGwire; Mark hit a deep line drive into left field. Mark was on a tear but now he was not the only chasing the record. The first pitch Morgan throws to McGwire is in there for a strike; the next pitch was just outside for a ball. Mark lines the 1 ball 2-strike pitch into the Centerfield Bleachers at Busch stadium. Making baseball the talk of the town all over the countr!y.
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