I need info abot Mark Mcgwire?

Answer 1

go on line and type in www. Markmcguire.com

Answer 2

I even might want to say that a do see fairly some the different around the following at the same time as it contains Pete and Mark being reported. If the guy needs to voice what he feels is ideal then allow him.

Answer 3

look up Mark McGwire on yahoo and it'll give you tons of information about him.

Answer 4

He is another big bopper who was on HGH's. That is why he took the 5th in front of congress. This is why he was not voted into the Hall of Fame a few months ago.
Enough said.

Answer 5

He hit a lot of home runs and took a lot of steroids. He played for the A's and the Cardinals.

Answer 6

Ask Barry Bonds, they love the juice.

Answer 7

What exactly do you want to know? Be specific.

Answer 8

Try BALCO, they know him VERY well!

Answer 9

www.baseballreference.com

And do your own homework.

Answer 10

Mark McGwire
Personal Info
Birth October 1, 1963 (age 43), Pomona, California
Professional Career
Debut August 22, 1986, Oakland Athletics vs. New York Yankees,
Team(s) Oakland Athletics (1986 - 1997)

St. Louis Cardinals (1997 - 2001)
Career Highlights

All-time records

* At bats per home run ratio (10.61)

Notable achievements

* Second highest single-season HR total (70)
* Single season rookie HR record (49)
* 1987 American League Rookie of the Year
* 1998 ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year

Mark David McGwire is a former professional baseball player, who played his entire career with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. McGwire was a prolific "power hitter" during the 1990s. In the 1998 season, McGwire broke the single-season home run record by hitting 70, which remains the second-highest home run total in one season behind Barry Bonds's 73 in 2001. For his career, McGwire averaged a home run once every 10.61 at bats, the lowest at bats per home run ratio in baseball history (Babe Ruth, who retired in the 1930s, is second at 11.76). McGwire was known for the distance of his home runs, hitting several over 500 feet. McGwire's nicknames included "Big Mac," "Big Red," and "Colossus."
Oakland Athletics career
McGwire hitting a game-winning home run in Game 3 of the 1988 World Series.
McGwire hitting a game-winning home run in Game 3 of the 1988 World Series.

McGwire began his major league career with the Oakland A's in 1986 and played there until 1997, prior to being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals. He won the World Series with the Oakland A's in 1989. Perhaps Mark McGwire's most famous home run with the A's was in Game 3 of the 1988 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers and former A's closer Jay Howell. McGwire's game-winning solo homer in the bottom of the 9th inning brought the only victory for the A's in the 1988 World Series.

In his first full Major League Baseball season in 1987, he hit 49 home runs, a single-season record for a rookie; he was named the American League Rookie of the Year. McGwire hit 32, 33, and 39 homers the next three seasons, the first Major Leaguer to hit 30+ home runs in each of his first 4 full seasons. His batting average, .289 as a rookie, plummeted to .260, .231, and .235. Then in 1991, he bottomed out with a .201 average and 22 homers. Manager Tony LaRussa sat him out the last game of the season so his average could not dip below .200. Despite the very low batting averages during this time of his career, his high bases on balls totals allowed him to maintain acceptable on-base percentages. He rebounded to hit 42 homers and bat .268 in 1992.

Injuries limited him to a total of 74 games in 1993 and 1994, and to 104 games in 1995 (but he still slugged 39 homers in 317 at-bats). The next season he belted a Major-League leading 52 homers in 423 at-bats.

McGwire worked hard on his defense at first base and resisted being seen as a one-dimensional player. He was regarded as a good fielder in his early years, even winning a Gold Glove in 1990. In his later years his speed was reduced making playing the position more difficult.

McGwire's 363 home run total with the Athletics is a franchise record. He was selected or voted to nine American League All-Star Teams while playing for the A's, including six consecutive appearances from 1987 through 1992.

[edit] St. Louis Cardinals and HR record chase

In 1997, he hit a major league-leading 58 home runs for the season, but did not lead either league in homers, as he was traded from the Oakland Athletics to the St. Louis Cardinals in midseason. It was widely believed that McGwire, in the last year of his contract, would play for the Cardinals only for the remainder of the season, then seek a long-term deal, possibly in Southern California, where he lives. However, McGwire signed a long-term deal to stay in St. Louis instead. (It is also believed that McGwire encouraged Jim Edmonds, another Southern California resident who was traded to St. Louis, to sign his current contract with the Cardinals.)

As the 1998 season progressed, it became clear that both Mark McGwire and Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa were on track to break the late Roger Maris' single-season home run record. The race to break the record first became an international media spectacle as the lead swung back and forth. On August 19, Sosa hit his 48th home run to move ahead of McGwire. However, later that day McGwire hit his 48th and 49th home runs to regain the lead.

On September 8, 1998, McGwire hit a pitch by the Chicago Cubs' Steve Trachsel over the left field wall for his record-breaking 62nd home run, setting off huge celebrations at Busch Stadium. The fact that the game was against the Cubs meant that Sosa was able to personally congratulate McGwire on his achievement. Members of Roger Maris' family were also present at the game.

McGwire finished the 1998 season with 70 home runs, a record that has since been broken by Barry Bonds. Sosa finished the season with 66 home runs.

In 1999, McGwire drove in a league-leading 147 runs while only having 145 hits, the highest RBI-per-hit tally in baseball history.

McGwire ended his career with 583 home runs, which was then fifth-most in history. He led Major League Baseball in home runs five times. He hit 50 or more home runs four seasons in a row (1996-1999), leading Major League Baseball in homers all four seasons, and also shared the MLB lead in home runs in 1987, his rookie year, when he set the Major League record for home runs by a rookie with 49.

[edit] Honors

In 1999, the The Sporting News released a list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players. The list had been compiled during the 1998 season and included statistics through the 1997 season. McGwire was ranked at Number 91. That year, he was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 2005, The Sporting News published an update of their list and McGwire had been moved up to Number 84.

In the 2007 balloting for the Baseball Hall of Fame, McGwire failed to attain election to the Hall, receiving 128 of the 545 cast, for 23.5% of the vote.[1]

[edit] Steroids controversy

Many of McGwire's accomplishments, particularly his home run surge late in his career, hitting 70 home runs, have come into question with his connection to the steroid scandal plaguing Major League Baseball. After an article written by Associated Press writer Steve Wilstein[1], McGwire admitted to taking Androstenedione, a dietary supplement banned by the NFL and IOC. It should be noted that Androstenedione was an over-the-counter supplement and was not a banned substance in baseball or the FDA at the time. Also noted was a dramatic weight loss of close to 40lbs off of McGwire's frame.

At a Congressional hearing on the subject of steroids in sports, McGwire repeatedly and somewhat conspicuously refused to answer questions on his own suspected use.

"It's fabrication," Cardinal's manager Tony La Russa told 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace.
“ The product of our good play and strength of our players — Mark was a great example — what we saw was a lot of hard work. And hard work will produce strength gains and size gains. ”

McGwire repeatedly denied using illegal performance-enhancing drugs in television interviews, but he declined to answer under oath when he appeared before the House Government Reform Committee on March 17, 2005. As McGwire said in a tearful opening statement,
“ Asking me or any other player to answer questions about who took steroids in front of television cameras will not solve the problem. If a player answers 'No,' he simply will not be believed; if he answers 'Yes,' he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." During the hearing, McGwire repeatedly responded to questions regarding his own steroid use with the line, "I'm not here to talk about the past. ”

McGwire also stated,
“ My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family, and myself. ”

[2] When asked if he was asserting his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, McGwire once again responded:
“ I'm not here to talk about the past. I'm here to be positive about this subject. ”

[edit] Personal life

McGwire married Stephanie Slemer, a former pharmaceutical sales representative from the St. Louis area, in Las Vegas on April 20, 2002. They reside in a gated community in Irvine, California with their sons, Max and Mason. McGwire also has a son, Matthew, by his first wife Kathy. Matthew was often a bat boy for the Cardinals during summer vacations from school while McGwire was playing and was present when his father hit his 62nd home run of the 1998 season.

He also created the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children to support agencies that work with children who have been sexually and physically abused.

McGwire currently chooses not to speak to the media and has distanced himself from many old friends. [3] He spends much of his free time playing golf. He is an exceptional golfer and it has been rumored that he will try to qualify for the Senior PGA Tour when he turns 50 in 2013.

His brother Dan McGwire was a quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL in the early 1990s.

[edit] Trivia

* Has appeared in the Backyard Baseball computer game series.
* Mark studied law at Cal State Monterey Bay.
* Had a cameo in the TV show The Simpsons.
* Also appeared on the TV show Mad About You.
* A mathematical property is named after McGwire, along with Sammy Sosa and Roger Maris. Two numbers form a Maris-McGwire-Sosa pair if they are consecutive numbers such that when you add each number's digits to the digits of its prime factorization, they are equal. Engineer Mike Keith named this property after the sluggers because he noticed that the numbers 61 and 62 have this property, and McGwire and Sosa both hit home run number 62 in 1998, both passing the record of Maris, 61.
* A five-mile stretch of I-70 through St. Louis, from the city's western edge to the Illinois border is named in his honor, "Mark McGwire Highway".

[edit] Career totals

* Games played 1874
* At bats 6187
* Runs 1167
* Hits 1626
* Doubles 252
* Triples 6
* Home runs 583
* Runs batted in 1414
* Walks 1317
* Strikeouts 1596
* Stolen bases 12
* Caught stealing 8
* On base percentage .394
* Slugging percentage .588
* Batting average .263