Mark McGwire
Baseball Player
Born: Oct 01, 1963 (age 55) POMONA . CA
Height: 6' 5"
Net worth: $101 million USD (2017)
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Timeline
| 1996: | He ranks 11th all time in home runs with 583, and led the major leagues in home runs in five different seasons, while establishing the major league record for home runs hit in a four-season period from 1996−1999 with 245. |
| 1998: | On September 8, 1998, McGwire hit a pitch by the Cubs' Steve Trachsel over the left field wall for his record-breaking 62nd home run, setting off massive celebrations at Busch Stadium. |
| 1999: | When he hit his 500th career home run in 1999, he did so in 5,487 career at bats, the fewest in major league history. |
| 2001: | McGwire finished the 1998 season with 70 home runs (including five in his last three games), four ahead of Sosa's 66, a record that was broken three seasons later in 2001 by Barry Bonds with 73. |
| 2002: | McGwire married Stephanie Slemer—a former pharmaceutical sales representative from the St. Louis area—in Las Vegas on April 20, 2002. |
| 2017: | McGwire's 49 home runs as a rookie stood as a major league record until Aaron Judge hit 52 for the New York Yankees in 2017. |
Mark David McGwire, nicknamed Big Mac, is an American former professional baseball first baseman.
His Major League Baseball playing career spanned from 1986 to 2001 while playing for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals, winning one World Series championship each with Oakland as a player in 1989 and with St. Louis as a coach in 2011.
One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, McGwire holds the major league career record for at bats per home run ratio, and is the former record holder for both home runs in a single season and home runs hit by rookie. He ranks 11th all time in home runs with 583, and led the major leagues in home runs in five different seasons, while establishing the major league record for home runs hit in a four-season period from 1996−1999 with 245. Further, he demonstrated exemplary patience as a batter, producing a career
.394 on-base percentage and twice leading the major leagues in bases on balls. Injuries cut short the manifestation of even greater potential as he reached 140 games played in just eight of 16 total seasons
. A right-handed batter and thrower, McGwire stood 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 245 pounds during his playing career.
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