During Major League Baseball's 1998 season, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs pursued the league's long-standing and highly coveted single-season home run reco
McGwire crossing home plate on May 18, 1998 for his 17th home run of the season
McGwire crossing home plate for a home run in a July 1998 game against the Houston Astros. He hit his 38th–40th home runs of the season in that series.
Mark Mc Gwire follow thru Piazza catching 53
Sammy Sosa swinging ball in air 84
Ken Griffey Jr.
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George Kenneth Griffey Jr., nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball. He spent most of his career with the
Griffey with the Seattle Mariners in 2009
A mural of Griffey in downtown Seattle from the strike-shortened 1994 season. The tick-marks represent his home runs up to the time of the strike, when Griffey Jr. was chasing the single-season home run record set by Roger Maris in 1961.
One of Griffey's signature sneakers, the Nike Air Griffey Max.
Griffey bats for the Mariners, 1997