Then and Now: Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa And The Home Run Race of 1998

Historiography!

In 1961 Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's untouchable single season home run record and it took 37 years for it to be broken again. What seemed like this wonderful event for baseball was tarnished by the realization that steroids helped Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa surpass that record. Here is a documentary that came out in 1998:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLlX6AM_Qs&t=5s

And here are the events that unfolded years later, this being his court hearing where he lies about his steroid use in 2005:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_eQUuiDN0

And here is his admittance to using steroids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3STkQC8pVEE