Mark McGwire breaks the single-season HR record in 1998

This was the best season of baseball to experience. We weren't thinking about steroids. We were just enjoying every game of the chase between him and Sosa.

Difficult to watch. I was so gullible

It was entertaining at the time

Steroids saved baseball. It was beautiful

Was watching this at like 2am in Naples Italy in the Navy barracks... What an amazing chase...

It was

One of the greatest MLB moments of my life was watching the chase and then Mark break the record. We all know they were on roids, we just didn’t care it was electric!!

To all the haters. Every person on that field wanted to congratulate him. Shut up with your bullshit. This was real baseball. It’s like trying to compare mj to LeBron. The 90s were just better. And you cannot argue it.

I watched this live and thought it was hands-down the worst home run McGwire hit that year

This was the point when Barry Bonds said “F’ it, time to ‘roid up…”

Just so weird, breaking such an historic record, yet knowing he was all juiced up.. Yet he celebrated like he earned it. Quite the pathology there..

I watched it. Don’t remember the WWF build at age 9 though

And everyone else on the field knew he was juicing, but none of them really cared because most of them were...

On a ball that would have been a fly out to left if not for… Fitting

He’s just so fucking big 😂

What a joke - juiced to the max and his manager said he never saw it =Not in my record book as neither as Bonds, Palimeiro and Sosa

He was a great HR hitter even as a skinny kid...you could argue he might have broken the record eventually without steroids...but it's obvious that they specifically boost HR output in weight training power hitters by 15% or more.

=== He should be rounding bases with some needles/syringes sticking out of his bottom. ===

* Fix it by adding the asterisk

Every now and then we should have a couple of "all drugs welcomed" seasons. Like the last 3 seasons of the decade you're free to shoot up whatever you want.

He was juicing, correct?

Watched that live. It was fucking awesome!

He was a cheater

💉💪

Has been very humble about the feat. Almost embarrassed for him.

The steroid era was wild AF

As a teenager at the time this fuggin kicked ASS

Such a shame. He cheated

No he didn’t. Chemicals did. Sorry but no.

Steroids.

Steroids fueled

Juiced...

Total sham. Same with the guy in the outfield.

Sorry, but it doesn't count. If you used steroids to enhance performance, your numbers should not count for any records.

Fraud. Aaron Judge is the clean home run king.