Big at the box office: RocknRolla 1998 In the USA, independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 impeachable offences, baseball player
Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season, breaking the major league record, while in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the 16th Commonwealth Games get under way - it's the first Asian city to host the sporting showcase.
1998: St Louis Cardinals baseball player
Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' 37-year-old record of 61 home runs in a single season.
Randy Johnson 534 (97.3%), Pedro Martinez 500 (91.1), John Smoltz 455 (82.9), Craig Biggio 454 (82.7), Mike Piazza 384 (69.9), Jeff Bagwell 306 (55.7), Tim Raines 302 (55.0), Curt Schilling 215 (39.2), Roger Clemens 206 (37.5), Barry Bonds 202 (36.8), Lee Smith 166 (30.2), Edgar Martinez 148 (27.0), Alan Trammell 138 (25.1), Mike Mussina 135 (24.6), Jeff Kent 77 (14.0), Fred McGriff 71 (12.9), Larry Walker 65 (11.8), Gary Sheffield 64 (11.7),
Mark McGwire 55 (10.0), x-Don Mattingly 50 (9.1), Sammy Sosa 36 (6.6), Nomar Garciaparra 30 (5.5).
The New York Post say they have been told by "two sources in the golf community" that Fleisher - brought in to try to repair the image of baseball star
Mark McGwire as he admitted using performanceenhancing drugs - is now seeing Woods.
It took almost five years for
Mark McGwire's Confession Day to arrive and judging on emotion alone, the long awaited public confession and apology seemed believable.
The Wrongful Truths of
Mark McGwire (http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3933:the-wrongful-truths-of-mark-mcgwire&catid=26:editorials&Itemid=39)
The latest--but certainly not the last--chapter of the
Mark McGwire saga returned to hit us upside the head in January when the former steroid-stuffed slugger decided he wanted to work again for the Cardinals and Tony La Russa.
Report:
Mark McGwire the New Hitting Coach for the Cardinals (http://bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3670:report-mark-mcgwire-the-new-hitting-coach-for-the-cardinals&catid=30:mlb-news&Itemid=42)
The reputations of ex-superstars like
Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, and homerun king Barry Bonds may never recover from the charge of cheating.