Complex

6 Takeaways From the Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa Documentary ‘Long Gone Summer’

The most captivating summer in modern baseball history got the 30 For 30 treatment with Sunday’s debut of Long Gone Summer, the new ESPN documentary that looked back at the iconic 1998 home run race ...
MLive

Mark McGwire will be forever stained by steroid confession, but forgiveness possible

I had my suspicions about slugger Mark McGwire and his beachball-sized biceps while spending the final month of the 1998 Major League Baseball season reporting on the Great Home Run Chase. So did ...
Los Angeles Times

Home Runs Seem Particularly Juicy

During Mark McGwire’s journey toward 70 home runs, a bottle of androstenedione was discovered in his locker. It is a metabolite of a steroid. It is banned by the international sports community. It was ...
ABC 7 Chicago

What you need to know about Sosa-McGwire home run chase before watching 'Long Gone Summer'

Is 22 years too soon? How do we look back on the great Home Run Chase of 1998? Can we look past the uncomfortable aftermath and remember Mark McGwire's battle with Sammy Sosa for home run supremacy as ...
Newsweek

Mcgwire’s Power Supply

A WINDUP, A PITCH AND A flash of blond wood. Crack! Mark McGwire has hit another towering homer. In his race to break Roger Maris's record of 61 home runs in a season, the St. Louis Cardinals slugger ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: Aaron Judge’s ‘clean’ pursuit of the HR mark can’t match the hype of the 1998 Sammy Sosa-Mark McGwire race

Before a game at old Busch Stadium in September 1998, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire declined to speak at a news conference about his pursuit of Roger Maris’ home run record, stiffing ...
Los Angeles Times

Writer may beat Mark McGwire to Hall of Fame

In a telling sign of the times, the reporter who broke the 1998 story about Mark McGwire using androstenedione today stands a better chance of making the Hall of Fame than McGwire and his famous foil ...