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Mark McGwire gets hired by a noteworthy MLB team

Big Mac is officially headed back up north. Retired 12-time All-Star slugger Mark McGwire is reuniting with the Athletics, John Shea of the San Francisco Standard reports this week. The Athletics are hiring McGwire as a special assistant to player …

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Photo of Mark McGwire in Cubs gear is so wrong

Baseball fans may be in need of some eye bleach this week. A photo went viral on social media this week of retired St. Louis Cardinals great Mark McGwire wearing some unexpected attire. McGwire was in the dugout for a Chicago Cubs spring game wearing …

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Mark McGwire thinks steroids guys are being treated unfairly

Mark McGwire and many other MLB legends have been excluded from the Baseball Hall of Fame strictly because of their link to performance-enhancing drugs, and the former slugger feels the treatment is unwarranted. During an interview on “Foul …

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10 best Home Run Derby participants ever

Believe it or not, the Home Run Derby wasn’t always a big deal. In 1990, for instance, a group of eight of the era’s finest sluggers hit just five total home runs at Wrigley Field in a non-televised competition. That all changed in the …

Report: Mark McGwire is candidate for Cardinals manager

The St. Louis Cardinals’ search to replace fired manager Mike Matheny could be leading them back to a familiar face. Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Monday that former Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire is among the …

Mark McGwire believes he could have hit 70 homers without PEDs

Mark McGwire’s record-setting tally of 70 home runs in the 1998 season will always be viewed with an asterisk next to it, but Big Mac himself believes that he could have done it just the same had he been clean. In an interview with Jayson Stark …

Mark McGwire not fond of the designated hitter rule

You might think, as a player known much more for his bat than for his glove, that Mark McGwire would have an appreciation for the designated hitter rule. That, however, is not the case. “We should do away with the DH and we should get back to …

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Mark McGwire does not want to ever speak with Jose Canseco again

Mark McGwire has no immediate plans to make up with Jose Canseco despite his former Bash Brother’s desperate pleas. McGwire is still upset with Canseco for writing in his 2005 book “Juiced” that he used steroids. McGwire admitted to …

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Don Mattingly, Mark McGwire own D-Backs coaches during crazy brawl

Six people were ejected from Tuesday’s Los Angeles Dodgers-Arizona Diamondbacks game after the teams got into a massive brawl following three batters getting hit. Things began in the bottom of the sixth inning when Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy …

So Mark McGwire’s Been Working as a Hitting Instructor Lately

As much as Mark McGwire tries to stay out of the spotlight — for which he’s done a damn good job — he’s been in the news quite a bit lately. First Deadspin caught some sections of the book Jay McGwire has written that details …

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