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                                With this mighty swing, Mark
                                McGwire sent his 62nd home
                                run over the fence and himself
                                into a special place in
                                America's pantheon.
                                                        As an adoring nation watched, McGwire’s time arrived. On Tuesday night he
    broke the most mythologized, most revered and most American of sporting records.
               He hit his 62nd home run of a season that has rekindled the country's interest n baseball.
 
 
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                   Louis) radio
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                  Time: 9:19 pm EDT
                Distance: 341 feet
           Direction: Left
     Count: 0-0
            Pitch: Fastball
                    Pitcher: S. Trachsel
              Situation: Bases Empty
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 Baseball needed McGwire-- and he delivered
                       The man with the red goatee and the Popeye biceps made athletic and American history Tuesday with one swing of a wooden club,  smacking a baseball 341 feet into the night  and
breaking a  revered  record a generation old.
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                                    | The talk had flowed everywhere for weeks. Who'd catch it? Should they keep it? Would the IRS come calling?
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                                     |Around the Horn: McGwire's blast hits home across the country
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"I hope I didn't act foolish. This is history"
--Mark McGwire
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