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McGuire and Sosa: Baseball's Greatest Home Run Story

1998

Synopsis

The excitement of records is the thrill of the chase. In 1927, Babe Ruth changed the face of baseball by breaking his own home run record. "Count 'em, 60! Let's see some other son of a bitch match that." In 1961, Roger Maris of the New Your Yankees led an assault on the holy grail of sporting records. The league had expanded from eight to ten teams, the schedule from 154 to 162 tames. Baseball commissioner Ford C. Frick announced that the home run record would be based on the old schedule... Enter Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa - both playing the season of their lives and forever entering themselves into the body and soul of baseball folklore. 1998 will go down in history as the year baseball was firmly re-established on the sporting map through the achievements of two very unique men united in their pursuit of impossible.

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