Through the 1998 season, Sammy Sosa was credited with bringing out Mark McGwire's lighter side. He also pushed him, because beating Roger Maris had become secondary to beating Sammy Sosa.

MLB legends Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa are back in the spotlight thanks to the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Long Gone Summer.The film details the 1998 baseball season which unfortunately has been ...

The race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa for the single-season home run record in 1998. At the start of that season, Roger Maris' 61 home runs in 1961 had stood as the record for nearly 40 years.

Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are back in the spotlight as ESPN released the new 30 for 30 documentary Long Gone Summer. The two baseball legends headed in different directions after they retired.

Sammy Sosa was the lean, springy outfielder with an iconic sideways hop unleashed each time he sent a pitch over the outfield fence. Mark McGwire was the hulking first baseman who lumbered around ...

As detailed in ESPN’s recent documentary “Long Gone Summer,” Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire will forever be remembered for their parallel bids to break Roger Maris’s 37-year-old single-season ...

Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals (R) and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs (L) laugh during a pregame press conference at Busch Stadium 07 September in St. Louis, Missouri.

Through the 1998 season, Sammy Sosa was credited with bringing out Mark McGwire's lighter side. He also pushed him, because beating Roger Maris had become secondary to beating Sammy Sosa.

By 1998, when the Cubs’ Sammy Sosa and the Cardinals’ Mark McGwire started the slugfest that captivated the nation, I should have known better.After all, what was then nearly two decades of ...

Through the 1998 season, Sammy Sosa was credited with bringing out Mark McGwire's lighter side. He also pushed him, because beating Roger Maris had become secondary to beating Sammy Sosa.