10.01.2009 4:30 am
Happy birthday, Big Mac! Give us a present
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Today is Mark McGwire’s birthday. He’s 46, 11 years removed from the glorious, record-setting home run season of 1998 that helped revive Major League Baseball.
We remember those happy days, right?
The 62nd home run of 1998.
A full stadium, a battle for home-run supremacy between McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Some of us may have replaced those happy memories with the not-so-good ones from 2005. When figures enmeshed in baseball’s steroid scandal got called before Congress.
And when McGwire uttered those now-infamous words: “I’m not here to talk about the past.”
So let’s talk about today. McGwire’s retired from baseball, financially set for life, so…
