Editor's note: On Sept. 27, 1998, Mark McGwire capped his record breaking season by hitting his 69th and 70th home runs of the season. This is how columnist Bernie Miklasz captured the moment.
"I can't believe I did it.
"Can you?" - Mark McGwire, Sept. 27, 1998.
Big Mac, chiseling furiously to the end, hammered two homers off the Montreal Expos and put two more indentations into the baseball record book.
McGwire finished with 70 home runs.
Seventy!
That's not a home-run total; that's an interstate.
Come to think of it, the stretch of I-70 that runs through St.