Thursday, January 21, 2010
NY Times - Glanville: Seeing is Disbelieving
But then Mark McGwire strolled into town, carrying the Cardinals and the future of M.L.B. on his back, as the bitterness of the 1994-1995 strike finally dissipated. The excitement about McGwire dwarfed even my enthusiasm for “Godzilla,” which was relegated to my “to do in the off-season” list. McGwire was streaking toward a seemingly unbreakable record, not by merely hitting balls over the fence but by scraping tops of stadiums as the ball left the atmosphere. Major league baseball players were reduced to little boys, tasting our childhood once again as we craned our necks to figure out when he would launch another impossible shot. Never in my experience had so many players who should have been stretching stopped everything just to watch an opponent take batting practice.
I rarely talk about PEDs here, because frankly, I don’t care about them at all. But this is a very interesting look at the McGwire thing from the perspective of a former player, who just so happens to also be a very intelligent person and very good writer.
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