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Timeline: Sammy Sosa vs. Mark McGwire in 1998
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The Sosa-McGwire home run race was the distraction we needed
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Ranking all 70 of Mark McGwire's 1998 homers
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An oral history of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa toga cover - Sports
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1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase - Wikipedia
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A Retrospective on the Home Run Chase of 1998's Impact on MLB
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The McGwire-Sosa home run chase helped make 1998 one of MLB's
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Remembering Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa's Historic Summer of '98 Home
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Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's race for home run history deserves a
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How Sammy Sosa's historic June turned the 1998 home run race into
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Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's race for home run history deserves a