What Is The Difference Between Sosa And Mcgwire

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A long time ago on the dusty baseball diamonds with beautiful green grass in the overlooking outfield with the sound of roaring cheering fans showing team and city pride built the legends of “slammin” Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs and Mark Mcgwire of the St. Louis Cardinals. In the summer of 1998, the two sluggers engaged in what is the most spectacular display of offense in the modern era of the game of baseball” since Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle were teammates and tried to go after Babe Ruth’s single season homerun record. This battle was eventually won by Maris. But some thirty odd years later he was finally challenged by Sosa and Mcgwire. While the story is very different than Mantle and Maris who were teammates Sosa and Mcgwire were

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