Mark McGwire
Seventy home runs
Mark McGwire is a retired American baseball player, best known for breaking Roger Maris's single-season home run record in 1998 with 70 home runs.
His name became synonymous with baseball's power-hitting era of the late 1990s.
McGwire later admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs, which tarnished his legacy and complicated his Hall of Fame candidacy: the Mark McGwire asterisk debate.
St. Louis franchise
- AthleticsBay Area baseball club
- MLBPro baseball organization
- sluggerPowerful baseball batter
- rookieInexperienced newcomer
All-Star · MVP · retirement · comeback · Oakland · St. Louis · contract · free-agent
Number after sixty
- 62Number past sixty-one
- 70Number after sixty-nine
- record-breakerOne setting new highs
- dingersSlang for home runs
Performance-enhancing hormones
- PEDBanned athletic enhancer
- admissionEntry or confession
- apologyStatement acknowledging wrongdoing
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
asterisk · legacy · tainted · confession · comeback · redemption
Upper arm flexors
- forearmsLower arm sections
- muscularHaving well-developed sinews
- hulkingMassive and unwieldy
- powerEnergy transfer rate
strength · weightlifting · intimidating · towering · barrel-chested · imposing
Cardinals
St. Louis franchise
rookie · All-Star · MVP · retirement · comeback · Oakland · St. Louis · contract · free-agent
61
Number after sixty
- 62Number past sixty-one
- 70Number after sixty-nine
- record-breakerOne setting new highs
dingers · moonshots · Sosa · Ruth · chase · milestone · historic
steroids
Performance-enhancing hormones
scandal · asterisk · legacy · tainted · confession · comeback · redemption
biceps
Upper arm flexors
power · strength · weightlifting · intimidating · towering · barrel-chested · imposing
- 1998Titanic, Godzilla, Armageddon, Saving Private Ryan, Google
- First BasemenLou Gehrig, Albert Pujols
- St. Louis SportsCardinals, Blues, Rams, Bob Gibson, Albert Pujols
- Baseball LegendsBabe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig
- Doping ScandalsLance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, stripped medals, blood doping, failed drug test
- St. LouisGateway Arch, Cardinals, Anheuser-Busch, Arch, Budweiser