It will be impossible to talk about Mark McGwire or Rafael Palmeiro ... but it would seem that McGwire has the upper hand right now. These numbers would appear to even up the odds a bit, but ...

Baseball has never seen anything quite like the Steroid Era. It was loud, thrilling, and completely over the top. Home run ...

Now they're difficult to find. The one on Tom Carroll's door is worn, the edges starting to roll back. If you're looking for signs that Mark McGwire went to high school here, this is about it.

No. 60 was delivered with the ball marked with a 3. "If that's not fate," Mark McGwire said, "I don't know what is." Fate or not, the summer of '98 was an incredible joy ride, not only for McGwire ...