On the Major League Baseball's final day of the season Mark McGwire hit two mammoth homeruns to give him 70 on the year, an astonishing 1 home run in every 7.3 at bats. Mark started this quest for the record early in spring training, setting his mind on accomplishing this one goal to be the king of all homerun hitters.

On the first day of the season Mark hit his first homerun of the season. On a 1 ball no strike count in the bottom of the fifth inning with two outs and the basses loaded Mark hit a Grand slam off of The LA Dodgers pitcher Ramon Martinez. With that Grand Slam he became just the twenty-first player in Major League history to hit a grand slam in the season opener. Now the quest was on, he was now 61 homeruns from beating the record.

Overall Mark hit eleven homeruns in the seasons first twenty-seven games, Mark really turned it on i

On September eighth, in the forth inning facing Steve Trachsel of the Cubs; Mark came to the plate once more. Trachsel threw a pitch to McGwire; Mark hit a deep line drive into left field. The ball was hit deep but everyone including Mark thought the ball wasn't going to leave the park, but then it was gone just clearing the wall. The fans went crazy yelling and cheering for Mark he had just broke the most unbreakable record in all of baseball.

Now the race was on Sosa and McGwire were now playing a game of cat and mouse as Sosa tried desperately to catch McGwire. On August 19th Sammy finally catches and passes McGwire hitting his forty-eighth homer of the year. However Sammy's lead was short lived Mark not only tied Sammy in the eighth inning against the Cubs but he takes the lead in the tenth inning of the same game. Mark was back in control of the homerun race. This would go on for the next month or so, Sosa would take the lead and McGwire would come back on the same day and reclaim the lead. On August 22nd Mark sets another record when he hits his 162nd homerun in the last three seasons beating Babe Ruth's record of 161.

On September 5th Mark finally hits his 60th homerun of the year joining Maris and Ruth as the only players in League history to hit sixty or more homeruns. Now the Stage was set the Cubs and Sammy Sosa came to town for a three game series with the Cardinals in St. Louis. In the Stands there were some very important fans, Roger Maris' family

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