During the 1998 baseball season, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have excited fans with the greatest home run race in the history of the game. By mid-September, both players surpassed Roger Maris's single season record of sixty-one homers, set back in 1961. Sosa and McGwire are both great players. However, McGwire has been getting much more media attention; partly because has led the race most of the season, but mainly because he has admitted to using a …showed first 75 words of 676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 676 total…second workout supplement called Androstenedione, which did not violate any rules of MLB. As many advantages as Mark McGwire may have over the home run kings of the past, one constant remains: "simply putting the ball into play against big-league pitching remains the greatest challenge" (McGwire, Woolsey). So, how should his record look when it is placed in the record books? Impressive. Undisputed. A mark by which all other's shall be compared. Without an asterisk.