Stadium’s New Baseball Stories Feature In-Depth Interviews With Jayson Stark

Padres bench coach Mark McGwire will talk about his 70-home run 1998 season in the first episode of Stadium's Baseball Stories with Jayson Stark. (Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images)As a national baseball writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1998, Jayson Stark had a firsthand view of the home run chase that resurrected post-strike baseball and captured the attention of the country. He was in attendance for 17 of Mark McGwire’s 70 home runs, then a record whose validity was later challenged by suspicions and subsequent admission of steroid use.

“I thought at the time this was the greatest story I ever covered,” Stark, best known for his work on ESPN that ended last year, said. “Obviously now…