For real. I mean the irony is thick. MLB: We are ashamed of what happened in 1998. MLB: Man did we make a lot of money back in 98 and please ignore our hypocrisy while we profit off of fake outrage
McGwire wasn't trying to hide the Andro from anyone. It was in clear sight in his locker. He was using it to heal up from the injuries that had plagued him in previous years. He hit 49 as a slim rookie in '87. He lifted a lot of weights and was using the Andro in front of everyone. That was not the case with Bonds. He was obviously trying to bulk up. McGwire was always big, but some dink reporter decided to make a big deal of it.
I was spoiled as a kid watching Mark McGwire crushing home runs and seeing Brett Hull fire beautiful slap shots. Watching those two play was a privilege and I will likely never see anything quite like it again in the world of sport. I could sit and watch McGwire hit home runs all day long. The 90's truly were a golden age and 1998 was the zenith of that magical era.
The two sports mainstay locations in STL during the late 90s and early 2000s: Busch Stadium II and Kiel(formerly Scottrade, now Enterprise) Center Then you have the Science Center, Magic House(a kids dream), City Museum, and the Saint Louis Zoo
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@@frederickglass1583 And right now the St. Louis Chess Club.
Dwight Cook the phrase is “couldn’t have cared less”. If they could have cared less than there is literally less that they could have cared which defeats the purpose of the phrase.
This man hit 70 HRs. 95% were called the moment of the crack of the bat. There are only 162 games in a year. Big Mac was droppin taters less than every 2.5 games per average. That. Is. Insane.
Gotta look at the actual stats though. McGwire played in 155 games, 3 were pinch hit appearances and in one other game he only played the first inning. So he effectively started 151 games, but played in 152 cause of the 4 plate appearances. 70HR in 152 games is pretty amazing. I have Bonds 01 stats handy, he played in 153 games, but only started 148, so we'll call the 5 extra plate appearances 1 game so 149. 73 in 149 is basically one every other game, insane. If we assume 13 more games with 4.456 average plate appearances (664/149) and 3.1946 at bats (476/149) per game that's = 58 more plate appearances and 41.5 more at bats. His walk total would go up from 177 to 193/194 and his home run total would go up to 79 or 80 from 73 [41.5(AB)/6.52(HR rate) = 6.36]. That's pretty ridiculous lol. (Bonds stats that season go even more bonkers if you eliminate the 27 game stretch where he was batting .202 and only hit 3 home runs).
Listen, i was taking the same stuff, Androstenedione back in the late 90s like Big Mac when you could buy it at GNC. Yeah it helped strength and got you bigger but it aint gonna help your hand eye coordination and your timing. This man was smoking high fastballs, hanging curves, split finger fastballs down in the zone, sliders, he was just crushing them. Its a crying shame hes not in Cooperstown.
I wasn’t even alive yet so no, it really wasn’t. 2006 was the best time for me to be alive because I finally got to see my Tigers go to a World Series even if they did lose.
One of my fondest memories as a kid . Watching this with my dad . My dad was my little league coach for many yrs and watching the home run race that year was so exciting. Just a special time . Miss my pops so much and can only hope to be half the man he was
This is why baseball is the great American game. 50,000 people can stand up and watch one man at the plate as they try to hit one out. One man. And we hear the crack of the bat and watch how far it goes. Mack, Sosa, Bonds, Griffey, during their careers all took America for a fun ride.
For those of you who never experienced Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia let me tell you, it is utterly impressive that he was able to hit the ball high enough for it to end up in the upper decks. Crazy stuff.
I loved the sportsmanship and true admiration & respect Sammy and Mark had for each other during this chase. You could see how genuinely excited Sammy was when Mark hit 62.
Regardless what any one says that was the most exciting time in MLB history! As of HR 36 it was great seeing how the opposing crowds started cheering foe him. And it just grew from there. Home or away the fans knew they were seeing something amazing! Its time I will never forget. It was just so exciting . he had the best hand eye coordination in the game. That to me helped to connect with the ball. Still goose bumps reliving these moments.
I don't care if he was taking steroids,he was a badass. I have great memories of being a young kid during this time. I was so into the Cards, now I just watch then every once in a while. Mark is a legend. Steroids do not automatically make you good at baseball. Being good at baseball makes you good at baseball.
I will remember going to those games for the rest of my life. I haven't experienced anything like it since. It truly was a special event. I feel special I was able to witness history. I remember going to Wrigley Field with my family as a kid and seeing him hit a couple out as well, but NOTHING compares to being at Busch Stadium in the summer of 98'.
It was a great time to be a baseball fan.No matter the team you'd be watching your team but keeping an eye out to see if they had hit a home run what a pleasant memory
Steroids played a role, true, but listen. If you watch Big Mac's first few seasons, he hit homers, but he was really bad at the plate. He couldn't settle into a comfortable stance, he struggled with pitch recognition and he'd wiff on a lot of pitches. Then he struggled with injuries. He'd fall into some horrific slumps. But he persevered through a lot. He made countless adjustments and while roids likely aided in his recovery, he hit 49 home runs as a rookie so it's not as if he was short on power to begin with. And when you watch this video, you see how comfortable he is at the plate. You can see the discipline. You can see him wait on breaking balls both good and bad. You can see him track the fastballs. You see him go the other way. He had really become not just a home run hitter, but just an excellent hitter. He was never going to win a batting title; that's not for everyone. But he really matured as a hitter and 70 home runs would never have been possible if not for that.
Steroids or not, that year in baseball was pivotal in reviving the sport's appeal after the strike a few years prior. If you've met Mark, you know he's a good and humble man, regardless of his choice to take steroids, he's a good person.
It kinda is, but I also blame McGwire and Bonds not admitting their use and taking the consequences in stride. I think they could have also used their platform to blame the MLB for not making steroids illegal during their playing time, looking the other way when it was obvious, profiting off of it, and then throwing the guilty players under the bus. They would be respected way more and Bonds could potentially be in the Hall of Fame Truthfully, no one cared about steroids at all before the BALCO fiasco came
This was the greatest year for me growing up. Graduated High School that year, senior Baseball season and got my first Varsity start at a pitcher, 10-0 shut out complete game, and other notable firsts that year in my life. This man was great and Baseball was fun to watch. Roids or not, it still takes some talent to hit a major league pitchers best pitches. Trying going down to your local batting cage and hitting the machine with the fastest pitch. Good luck, especially because you know it's coming pretty straight and to the same location. This guy did it with all types of different pitches and pitch locations, from the best pitchers in the business at that time. Something to think about before criticizing him and the other great hitters that year.
Despite all of McGwire's HRs the Cards struggled to stay above .500 for most of the season, finally finishing at 83-79. This was mostly due to a shaky starting rotation and a ragtag bullpen that gave up numerous leads in the late innings.
I remember this as a kid. In Mexico we watched a lot of soccer but Mark McGwire was so big that my grandpa who was a baseball fan had me watched with him most of the games of that season. Amazing!
Seeing him and Sammy celebrate #62 together makes my eyes water. Baseball is a brotherhood where we celebrate each others accomplishments. Anyone else that's played the game understands that. Beautiful moment between two of the best to ever do it.
I was 13 the summer this all happened. I was present for 48, 49, 61, 69, and 70. I don't like baseball highlights because of the moments, only. It's because it takes me back to those times in my life.
You know it 😜. People forget that the home run race started between Griffey and McGwire and ends up between Mac and Sammy...NOW BETWEEN THEM GRIFFEY IS ONLY ONE IN Hall of FAme⚾️
People can say what they want, Their are no steroids inside your eyes. You still need a amazing eye to hit a baseball. In my opinion, No asterisks next to his name. He is The Man and truth be known. The fans could care less about How homeruns are hit, It's the media... When we go to a game WE LOVE HOME RUNS
He has an amazing swing and one that is perfect for hitting homers. He was also big always. He definitely used roids, but there’s only a handful of homers from that season that wouldn’t have made it if he weren’t on juice. He made solid contact and launched balls on a perfect home run trajectory. Sosa on the other hand (and Bonds) literally doubled in size.
So, it wasn't illegal at the time, and a lot of other players were doing it. McGwire was a big boy before he got huge, he had the frame for muscle gain. Plus a naturally smooth swing -- I sort of feel sorry for the pitchers of the time.
Mark McGwire was born to hit home runs. If you dig into his younger life stories you can see that. Sure the steroids helped strength and helped maintain it throughout the long season...But he still needed his skills and God given talent to hit those 90+ mph pitches. Look at Jose Canseco, he had some good years, but he was a mess. So many guys were one season macho's. McGwire hit homers his whole life. Roids should have never made it into baseball for sure. Everyone makes mistakes in life...But It sure was a magical season. Never would have thought just a few years later 70 would be broken! Barry Bonds with his patient eye with all those walks had an even better year in 2001.
1998 was the year that brought baseball back from the dead. The player's strike of 1994 all but killed baseball. The great homerun chase of 1998, combined with the Yankees record season, brought the country together. So, what does MLB and Congress do? "We can't have this sort of excitement and unity! Bring them all down!! Bwahahahaha!!!"
That year was the best year of baseball in my book. I followed the homer in chase religiously. Ken Griffey Jr was in the race for awhile but he fell off around 58 homers. We’ll probably never see another season like it
1998 had the home run chase, the Yankees' epic & dominant season, Kerry Wood's 20 strikeouts vs the Astros, Roger Clemens reaching 3000 strikeouts, Barry Bonds reaching 40 HRs & 40 stolen bases( 1st player in a single season to do so ), and the NL wildcard race between the Cubs, Mets, & Giants going down to the wire. And Roy Halladay making his major league debut in late-September and nearly tossing a no-hitter on the last day of the season for the Blue Jays. 1998 really was a fun season for baseball.
County Stadium in Milwaukee had both the Cards and Cubs back-to-back late in the 1998 season. I was listening by radio just to keep up with Sammy and Mark. PEDs or not, 1998 was a great season.
Mcgwire was an event. When Bonds did it, pretty much nobody cared. When Aaron bear Ruth it was a peice of history. When Bonds broke it, once again nobody cared
If you were a baseball fan, you were watching that primetime game when he hit #62.
MLB will never admit that this was the best time to watch baseball.
It’s crazy how almost all the ballparks in this video is gone.
Roids or not, this was the most exciting era in Baseball. Sosa, Bonds, and Mac.
balderdash
That's the thing. Roids doesn't improve your eyesight, reflexes or anything similar to hit a ball.
@@a7xtherevrend They are PEDs that definitely improve reflex time mainly your reset and reaction speed but I doubt they were using them in the 90’s.
100%
Gibberish he’s an A hole and should not be in the hall of fame
6:36 Bonds is like "I'm gonna start takin whatever he's taking".
Jon .Molina lol
Jon .Molina *And look what happened a few seasons later...*
Barry said i can hit more watch me lmao
009 Molina he already was
you can see the jealousy in his expression. It's actually lol.
the fans racing across the covered seating in Miami is hysterical.
That guy is not ok
Lol those are cement steps. Had to hit that noggin lol
@@bugchingy my ribs hurted watching that fall
Dem are Cubans. Thays use to scrambling like dat.
14:10 lmaoooo
MLB: No HOF for you, McGwire.
Also MLB: watch this vid of McGwire breaking the HR record.
You know it's the writers who decide that, right?
For real. I mean the irony is thick. MLB: We are ashamed of what happened in 1998. MLB: Man did we make a lot of money back in 98 and please ignore our hypocrisy while we profit off of fake outrage
The MLB doesn't decide who goes into the Hall of Fame and who doesn't. The Hall of Fame itself does that.
@@Jacobthekid28 It’s actually the BBWAA, not the Hall that decides.
Tree trunk arms was the best part of baseball imo. No wonder why thge NFL took over in the 2000s. The MLB couldn't get more exciting then this.
McGwire wasn't trying to hide the Andro from anyone. It was in clear sight in his locker. He was using it to heal up from the injuries that had plagued him in previous years. He hit 49 as a slim rookie in '87. He lifted a lot of weights and was using the Andro in front of everyone. That was not the case with Bonds. He was obviously trying to bulk up. McGwire was always big, but some dink reporter decided to make a big deal of it.
I was spoiled as a kid watching Mark McGwire crushing home runs and seeing Brett Hull fire beautiful slap shots. Watching those two play was a privilege and I will likely never see anything quite like it again in the world of sport. I could sit and watch McGwire hit home runs all day long. The 90's truly were a golden age and 1998 was the zenith of that magical era.
The two sports mainstay locations in STL during the late 90s and early 2000s:
Busch Stadium II and Kiel(formerly Scottrade, now Enterprise) Center
Then you have the Science Center, Magic House(a kids dream), City Museum, and the Saint Louis Zoo
@@frederickglass1583 And right now the St. Louis Chess Club.
I mean the 2010s were pretty great, Cards WS in 2011, Blues getting a Cup in 2019, and Chiefs getting Mahomes and a Superbowl.
Dwight Cook the phrase is “couldn’t have cared less”. If they could have cared less than there is literally less that they could have cared which defeats the purpose of the phrase.
Dwight Cook if you care less than you should t be on here. Obviously, you care less about trying to fix your depression.
9:10 I was lucky enough to be there for #36 off Mike Trombley. The show he put on in BP was unlike I'd ever seen before or since.
If you could review Ken Griffey jr. winning for the SNES it would make my life
and why not - he was juiced up like an alien
Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in sports to do. He was a great hitter no matter what anyone says after this.
They won't let Barry, Roger or Mark in. It's a huge shame, they still sell Pete Rose jersey's.
I agree
Agreed....BUT he was able to hit it further because of steroids!
So what's your point?!
The fact that the best of the best hitting 1/3 times is considered “elite” tells you how hard it is.
This man hit 70 HRs. 95% were called the moment of the crack of the bat.
There are only 162 games in a year. Big Mac was droppin taters less than every 2.5 games per average.
That. Is. Insane.
Gotta look at the actual stats though.
McGwire played in 155 games, 3 were pinch hit appearances and in one other game he only played the first inning. So he effectively started 151 games, but played in 152 cause of the 4 plate appearances. 70HR in 152 games is pretty amazing.
I have Bonds 01 stats handy, he played in 153 games, but only started 148, so we'll call the 5 extra plate appearances 1 game so 149. 73 in 149 is basically one every other game, insane. If we assume 13 more games with 4.456 average plate appearances (664/149) and 3.1946 at bats (476/149) per game that's = 58 more plate appearances and 41.5 more at bats. His walk total would go up from 177 to 193/194 and his home run total would go up to 79 or 80 from 73 [41.5(AB)/6.52(HR rate) = 6.36]. That's pretty ridiculous lol. (Bonds stats that season go even more bonkers if you eliminate the 27 game stretch where he was batting .202 and only hit 3 home runs).
One of the best times to be from SE Missouri. The Cardinals under McGuire were absolutely electric
23 years ago and it only feels like yesterday. Memories are a beautiful thing.
Indeed brother. 💯
The guy was hitting *EVERYTHING* a mile. Fastballs at his eyes, curve-balls at his shoes, didn't matter. What a fun time to be a fan.
rookie mode on mlb the show
Finally someone understands its not beginner. If it was beginner, he’d have two HUNDRED and seventy
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Listen, i was taking the same stuff, Androstenedione back in the late 90s like Big Mac when you could buy it at GNC. Yeah it helped strength and got you bigger but it aint gonna help your hand eye coordination and your timing. This man was smoking high fastballs, hanging curves, split finger fastballs down in the zone, sliders, he was just crushing them. Its a crying shame hes not in Cooperstown.
Well said
Please don’t try to justify the use of roids
All people are going to remember the records on roids are not valid no hof
This was still the best time to be a MLB fan.
Griffey, McGwire, Sosa, Rodriguez, Bonds, Gwynn, Ramirez, Guerrero. All-time batsmen no doubt
@@briansharp47, Chipper, Andruw, Bagwell...so many.
Easily. They should encourage steroid usage. Makes the game so much more fun
I wasn’t even alive yet so no, it really wasn’t. 2006 was the best time for me to be alive because I finally got to see my Tigers go to a World Series even if they did lose.
A MLB fan to watch steroids do the homerun race.
One of my fondest memories as a kid . Watching this with my dad . My dad was my little league coach for many yrs and watching the home run race that year was so exciting. Just a special time . Miss my pops so much and can only hope to be half the man he was
Every single time he barreled one up, you just sat there like "...Wow"
When you drive 7 RBIs in on your first two homeruns of the year, you know you're going to have a good season.
This is why baseball is the great American game. 50,000 people can stand up and watch one man at the plate as they try to hit one out. One man. And we hear the crack of the bat and watch how far it goes. Mack, Sosa, Bonds, Griffey, during their careers all took America for a fun ride.
Even before he bulked up, McGwire always had an amazing HR swing and tremendous HR rate.
He hit 49 HR as a rookie, he was always bulked up.
@@TheMailmanOfSteel idiot
he was always big. Bonds and Sosa and Ramirez more noticeably bulked up
@@TheMailmanOfSteel he wasnt then
Exactly! Same with Bonds they were both a lot smaller before the steroids but were still smackin them things out the park
15:43 Classy Jack Buck "Pardon me, while I stand up and applaud"
I remember watching #62 on TV. There was like 15-20 min of celebrations before the game started back.
For those of you who never experienced Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia let me tell you, it is utterly impressive that he was able to hit the ball high enough for it to end up in the upper decks. Crazy stuff.
Most of his home runs here look like they were shot out of a cannon.
Like he was hitting a golf ball instead of a baseball
Strictly moonshots
4:10 that was a BOMB must've been an amazing one to see live
Dude wasn't just hitting homeruns, he was hitting BOMBS
Facts
@@demboys5719 duh he was all jacked up on roids
What I loved best about BigMac is that he never stared at his homers. Ran out of the box right away. Miss watching him.
Wrong, very wrong.
1998 has to be one of the best mlb seasons ever between Big Mac, Sosa, etc and the Yankees having a ridiculous season it was a remarkable season.
1998 was the best year in sports all together
Jordan completing his second 3peat also
And France win the world cup
That was 97 bud
Yep 114 wins is crazy best team ever even though you swept nobodies
Roids or not, McGuire deserves to be in the Hof anyone who says not just hates the a’s or cardinals
Or hates cheating?
He was hitting some of those in the upper deck at old Busch Stadium that nobody else had ever come close to reaching.
I loved the sportsmanship and true admiration & respect Sammy and Mark had for each other during this chase. You could see how genuinely excited Sammy was when Mark hit 62.
Regardless what any one says that was the most exciting time in MLB history! As of HR 36 it was great seeing how the opposing crowds started cheering foe him. And it just grew from there. Home or away the fans knew they were seeing something amazing! Its time I will never forget. It was just so exciting . he had the best hand eye coordination in the game. That to me helped to connect with the ball. Still goose bumps reliving these moments.
I don't care if he was taking steroids,he was a badass. I have great memories of being a young kid during this time. I was so into the Cards, now I just watch then every once in a while. Mark is a legend. Steroids do not automatically make you good at baseball. Being good at baseball makes you good at baseball.
I was 9 years old during his 1998 season. I also played little league from when I was 5 to 12,Watching his home runs were mesmerizing as a kid.
Your wrong
I will remember going to those games for the rest of my life. I haven't experienced anything like it since. It truly was a special event. I feel special I was able to witness history. I remember going to Wrigley Field with my family as a kid and seeing him hit a couple out as well, but NOTHING compares to being at Busch Stadium in the summer of 98'.
How old was you? I was 10, Mark is my G.O.A.T, idc about roids. Cards are my team.
That was such a fun year. Probably watched over 90% of these happen.
The legend. Mark McGwire is definitely hit 70 home runs for history. NICE! : )
I laughed when the fans catches the base balls that Mark uses his bats to hit. : )
All the Cubs and Sosa celebrating with him gives me goosebumps.
That was one of the coolest parts
Agreed
It was a great time to be a baseball fan.No matter the team you'd be watching your team but keeping an eye out to see if they had hit a home run what a pleasant memory
His swing looks so effortless you almost wonder if he could hit one out kneeling or even sitting down
Steroids played a role, true, but listen. If you watch Big Mac's first few seasons, he hit homers, but he was really bad at the plate. He couldn't settle into a comfortable stance, he struggled with pitch recognition and he'd wiff on a lot of pitches. Then he struggled with injuries. He'd fall into some horrific slumps. But he persevered through a lot. He made countless adjustments and while roids likely aided in his recovery, he hit 49 home runs as a rookie so it's not as if he was short on power to begin with.
And when you watch this video, you see how comfortable he is at the plate. You can see the discipline. You can see him wait on breaking balls both good and bad. You can see him track the fastballs. You see him go the other way. He had really become not just a home run hitter, but just an excellent hitter. He was never going to win a batting title; that's not for everyone. But he really matured as a hitter and 70 home runs would never have been possible if not for that.
Steroids or not, that year in baseball was pivotal in reviving the sport's appeal after the strike a few years prior. If you've met Mark, you know he's a good and humble man, regardless of his choice to take steroids, he's a good person.
after he and the others got caught for using road, he and the others made mlb worse.
Also I think most of the Cards didn’t use steroids, McGwire hogged them all.
this brought fans back to the park after the strike
Still amazing and exciting! Thank you, MLB for creating and posting this video!
I saw #62 on TV. I remember when he connected and it looked like it was gone, I jumped up and yelled, "Get outta there!"
Y’all at MLB need to make another video as soon as you figure out how far some of those home runs went, Holy smokes!
Steroids have taught me that Ken Griffey Jr. and Ichiro were great
You are right.
Jr. was a bad boy for sure. But not as great as McGwire. 😎
@@scottsummers4115 if he took steroids then he would be on the all time home run list I bet
@@M10256 You don't know what steroids do.
Griffey roided, too
This was way better than Bonds' homerun chase in 2001
I got to see #26 and #42 against the Padres. During one of his batting practices he hit one in the upper upper deck at the Murphy est over 500ft
He needed the needle to use roids to make those homeruns.
@@hectorlopez1069 he took roids? No way
Wow , Mark McGwire could hit the heck out of a ball. Never seen no one like him!
It’s sad that baseball trashed these guys. MLB shot themselves in the foot by throwing them under the bus.
It kinda is, but I also blame McGwire and Bonds not admitting their use and taking the consequences in stride. I think they could have also used their platform to blame the MLB for not making steroids illegal during their playing time, looking the other way when it was obvious, profiting off of it, and then throwing the guilty players under the bus. They would be respected way more and Bonds could potentially be in the Hall of Fame
Truthfully, no one cared about steroids at all before the BALCO fiasco came
August 20th 1998 at shea stadium, split the double header to stay 14 games over .500. One of the best days at shea in my life. LETS GO Mets!!!
This was the greatest year for me growing up. Graduated High School that year, senior Baseball season and got my first Varsity start at a pitcher, 10-0 shut out complete game, and other notable firsts that year in my life. This man was great and Baseball was fun to watch.
Roids or not, it still takes some talent to hit a major league pitchers best pitches.
Trying going down to your local batting cage and hitting the machine with the fastest pitch. Good luck, especially because you know it's coming pretty straight and to the same location. This guy did it with all types of different pitches and pitch locations, from the best pitchers in the business at that time. Something to think about before criticizing him and the other great hitters that year.
We all know what this was all about......but wow was this all just amazing!!!
If you blinked at 4:40, you might’ve missed Mike Piazza as a Marlin in the lower right corner.
Worst move the Dodgers EVER made!
#62 was a straight line drive for a home run, insane power
Bob Carpenter is an underappreciated broadcaster. Loved when he called games on kplr.
For some reason he is annoying as a commentator now
*See. You. Later.*
@@dom12011 world Series champion* broadcaster
Nats are glad to have him today
Don't understand why so many people hate him
I remember watching these games as a kid and yet to this day each home run still gives me goosebumps
Despite all of McGwire's HRs the Cards struggled to stay above .500 for most of the season, finally finishing at 83-79. This was mostly due to a shaky starting rotation and a ragtag bullpen that gave up numerous leads in the late innings.
Imagine being a fan back then? Fans now can barely handle what we have now. Only exciting thing was big mac.
It's a shame that his team or Sosa's didn't win a World Series.
@@a7xtherevrend eventually we did get to the NLCS his next to last season. Our bullpen couldn’t stop a cold.
They are playoffs chokers that’s why
My dad left the hospital room where I was being born to watch his 70th homer. My mother never lets him live that down. Can’t blame him tho
true?
@@stevenp9209 i swear
6:36 That skinny dude looks like he's thinking about a plan
And don’t forget McGwire end the season with 162 walks in ‘98 and if it was that many walks and he would have gotten well over 70 HRs easily .
I remember this as a kid. In Mexico we watched a lot of soccer but Mark McGwire was so big that my grandpa who was a baseball fan had me watched with him most of the games of that season. Amazing!
McDwire from 1995--2000
had an incredible HR/AB ratio I wish he played another year ang got 600HR
Those years roided up
@@hectorlopez1069 i dont care lol back then all I cared about was how fun that was to watch. lol cant take that away from me
If he'd had an Altuve buzzer in addition to 'roids, he'd have hit 90 homers.
He didn’t have a buzzer and McGwire should’ve had external assistance.
I watched many of the games, and I remember #62. Surreal that it happened against the Cubs. 16:10 Loved the respect from Sosa.
Loved listening to the different announcers throughout the compilation.
Roids or no roids his coordination was phenomenal.
Seeing him and Sammy celebrate #62 together makes my eyes water. Baseball is a brotherhood where we celebrate each others accomplishments. Anyone else that's played the game understands that. Beautiful moment between two of the best to ever do it.
I’d argue that baseballs steroid era is the most exciting era in any sport ever.
100%
I don’t know about all sports, but def the most exciting for baseball.
eh, '90s Bulls. but it sure was exciting.
Best time for baseball but damn dude....baseball is the most boring of nearly all the sports. Boxing, MMA, Football, Hockey, etc. all better
That was such a fun year. I never really watched baseball after that.
5:38 Watch the pitcher's face when he realizes he's hung a curve and it's gone. Falls like a souffle
Having a Mark McGwire jersey is something else…
“Dad why we sitting all the way up here?”……trust me son best seat in the house!
He should be in the HOF no matter what.
17:09 dude sacrificing his life for a baseball
I was 13 the summer this all happened. I was present for 48, 49, 61, 69, and 70.
I don't like baseball highlights because of the moments, only. It's because it takes me back to those times in my life.
1998 one of the best year in baseball, hands down!!!
And culture to Big Lebowski That 70's Show Lenny Kravitz Foo Fighters Powerpuff Girls
The best year to do steroids.
Man this was such a great season, regardless of the PEDs going around
My favorite hitter of all time besides Ken Griffey JR.! So effortless like he's swinging a toothpick!
You know it 😜. People forget that the home run race started between Griffey and McGwire and ends up between Mac and Sammy...NOW BETWEEN THEM GRIFFEY IS ONLY ONE IN Hall of FAme⚾️
Griffey didn’t do steroids that is why
@@magicjohnson-o4lthat shows he was the goat of the steroid era of 98. Love you Griffey Jr.
He hit balls into seats you don't usually expect to reach
People can say what they want, Their are no steroids inside your eyes. You still need a amazing eye to hit a baseball. In my opinion, No asterisks next to his name. He is The Man and truth be known. The fans could care less about How homeruns are hit, It's the media... When we go to a game WE LOVE HOME RUNS
He has an amazing swing and one that is perfect for hitting homers. He was also big always. He definitely used roids, but there’s only a handful of homers from that season that wouldn’t have made it if he weren’t on juice. He made solid contact and launched balls on a perfect home run trajectory.
Sosa on the other hand (and Bonds) literally doubled in size.
@@matthewpl6863 oh come on, mcgwire had the most cartoonish proportions out of anyone besides canseco.
@@foarfield looking at bonds conseco and Marc, as someone that was born in 2002 its funny how unreal they look in comparison to athletes today
My goodness, nearly every hr was a moon shot
The only asterisk should be this is the only watchable era of baseball.
He always had a way of making a huge piece of lumber look like a toothpick
" UP in to the night, into the upper deck ARE YOU KIDDING ME?.... Oh My!!! "
4:08 My fave HR on this list simply because of the commentary
ARE U KIDDDDDDINNNNN MEEEEEEEE?!?!?!?!?!?!????!?!!!??!!!??????
Anyways, that was a 527 feet home run
A young Matt Vasgersian
Chris Kreager Needs more Santa Maria
Yeah, that was always my favorite one.
6:37 you can see Bonds thinking to himself “That’s it, I’m hittin the juice”
Bonds was so much smaller then
Don’t care this saved Baseball period.
Sammy coming out to congratulate Big Mac after #62 is why I love this game.
So, it wasn't illegal at the time, and a lot of other players were doing it. McGwire was a big boy before he got huge, he had the frame for muscle gain. Plus a naturally smooth swing -- I sort of feel sorry for the pitchers of the time.
Mark McGwire was born to hit home runs. If you dig into his younger life stories you can see that. Sure the steroids helped strength and helped maintain it throughout the long season...But he still needed his skills and God given talent to hit those 90+ mph pitches. Look at Jose Canseco, he had some good years, but he was a mess. So many guys were one season macho's. McGwire hit homers his whole life. Roids should have never made it into baseball for sure. Everyone makes mistakes in life...But It sure was a magical season. Never would have thought just a few years later 70 would be broken! Barry Bonds with his patient eye with all those walks had an even better year in 2001.
1998 was the year that brought baseball back from the dead. The player's strike of 1994 all but killed baseball. The great homerun chase of 1998, combined with the Yankees record season, brought the country together. So, what does MLB and Congress do? "We can't have this sort of excitement and unity! Bring them all down!! Bwahahahaha!!!"
That year was the best year of baseball in my book. I followed the homer in chase religiously. Ken Griffey Jr was in the race for awhile but he fell off around 58 homers. We’ll probably never see another season like it
Don’t forget the Oakland A’s streak too ! 😉
@@seashley8931 What streak? Their 20-game win streak? That was in 2002.
1998 had the home run chase, the Yankees' epic & dominant season, Kerry Wood's 20 strikeouts vs the Astros, Roger Clemens reaching 3000 strikeouts, Barry Bonds reaching 40 HRs & 40 stolen bases( 1st player in a single season to do so ), and the NL wildcard race between the Cubs, Mets, & Giants going down to the wire. And Roy Halladay making his major league debut in late-September and nearly tossing a no-hitter on the last day of the season for the Blue Jays. 1998 really was a fun season for baseball.
@@ckendall67 Actually, Jose Canseco was the first member of the 40/40 club.
County Stadium in Milwaukee had both the Cards and Cubs back-to-back late in the 1998 season. I was listening by radio just to keep up with Sammy and Mark. PEDs or not, 1998 was a great season.
What a beautiful swing!
I agree💯
no matter what he had that swing
I wonder how many of them were close to or even over 500 feet.
Mcgwire was an event. When Bonds did it, pretty much nobody cared. When Aaron bear Ruth it was a peice of history. When Bonds broke it, once again nobody cared
I saw #53 in Three Rivers. It sounded like the Pirates won the series the ovation was so loud
I wasn't ever much of a baseball fan before or since, but in 1998, it was too epic to ignore.
Cleanest stroke in baseball batting history.