Mark McGwire
Mark McGwire
Mark David "Big Mac" McGwire, is an American former professional baseball player and currently a bench coach in Major League Baseball. As a first baseman, his MLB career spanned from 1986 to 2001 while playing for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He quickly grabbed media attention in 1987 as a rookie with the Athletics by hitting 33 home runs before the All-Star break, and would lead the major leagues in home runs that year with 49, setting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth1 October 1963
CityPomona, CA
CountryUnited States of America
This is a season I will never forget and I hope everybody in baseball never forgets.
This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.
I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
Baseball was a chapter in my life, and now I'm excited to start another chapter as a hitting coach.
I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
I'd be here all of time. I just don't live here.
My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family and myself,
Somebody gets into September with fifty, they have a shot down the stretch to either tie, break or get close to the record.
Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,
I think it's outstanding and I'm ecstatic they invited me,