Sosa, McGwire saved baseball
Bernie Lincicome’s recent column on Sammy Sosa and the Cubs was good.
In Geneva, during the Home Run Show between Sosa and Mark McGwire, there was a sign on a Randall Road fence that kept up with all the home runs Sammy would hit that season. It was updated every day.
Non-fans looked at it when they drove to work the next day. They didn’t care about history.
They didn’t care that Mays, Aaron, Banks, Ruth didn’t use stimulants to enhance performance. They didn’t care that the ruling elite of the baseball world looked the other way when stimulants were being taken.
They just cared who hit more homers the day before. They talked about it the next day and till the end of that magical season.
McGwire and Sosa saved baseball. Bud Selig and Tony LaRussa, Hall of Famers, also looked the other way and they didn’t care either. Baseball was coming back. They both are enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
I’m glad Sammy is back. It’s about time.
He helped save this game at that time and he did it during an era when players’ abilities and use of drugs was not questioned by the officers and managers of that time.
Tony and Bud have plaques in Cooperstown. Hmmm.
Joe Meciej
Aurora