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
I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.
Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.
To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.
I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.
The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.
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,