Mark McGwire received a standing ovation from Cardinals fans Sunday in his first public appearance in St. Louis since admitting he used steroids.
Mark McGwire has finally come clean about steroid use during his baseball career. He says he used steroids on and off in the 1990s, even while breaking the home run record.
Mark McGwire got emotional as he admitted to using steroids throughout his career. However, he insists he could still have broken Roger Maris' single season record.
Former home run king Mark McGwire admitted that he took steroids and human growth hormone during his playing days. He spoke to the AP about the admission.
Associated Press sports writer Ron Blum discusses his interview with Mark McGwire in which the former baseball slugger admits using steroids when he broke baseball's single-season home run record in 1998.
Former home run king Mark McGwire is back in baseball, as the hitting coach with the St. Louis Cardinals, who on Monday announced that Tony La Russsa will return to manage the team next season.
NEW YORK (AFP) — A book written by the estranged younger brother of disgraced former baseball hero Mark McGwire says the record-setting slugger took steroids, the website www.deadspin.com reported Thursday.
Jay McGwire claimed in the as-yet-unpublished memoir that he was the reason that McGwire became involved in performance-enhancing drugs.
"Mark is a man I think most would like to forgive because his reason wasn't nefarious. It was for survival," Jay McGwire wrote.
Mark McGwire, a retired standout for the St. Louis Cardinals and Oakland A's, hit 70 home runs in the 1998 season to shatter the one-season Major League Baseball record of 61 by Roger Maris in 1961, among the most hallowed US baseball marks.
But the glory of the time turned sour with doping accusations.
McGwire's estranged brother says star took steroids....
