Seventy.
The memories feel like fantasy.
And in a way, it was. Reality is, we’ve yet to see a man, unaided by performance enhancing drugs, hit 70 home runs in a MLB season. What we saw out there with Mark McGwire, that was aided. How much, we’ll never know — you can’t put a number on what amount of his stats were affected by PEDs. That’s as cloudy as that cloud of suspicion that hovered over him, for years, until that 2010 day he finally talked about the past.
The ex-Cardinal was gracious when he admitted to Bob Costas, in 2010, that he used PEDs as a player — and Big Mac has been gracious ever since.