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ESPN's 'Long Gone Summer' revisits the Sammy Sosa-Mark McGwire home run chase of 1998. The task for the director was 'can we go back and show what that summer really felt like?' –
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Timeline: Sammy Sosa vs. Mark McGwire in 1998
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Long Gone Summer Refuses to Bury McGwire, Sosa, and the 1998 Home Run Race
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1998 home run chase 25 years later: A look at McGwire, Sosa vs. Reds
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1998 home run chase 25 years later: A look at McGwire, Sosa vs. Reds
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1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase - Wikipedia
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1998 home run chase 25 years later: A look at McGwire, Sosa vs. Reds
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