Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The summer of 1998 was a pretty good time to be a baseball fan.
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were slugging home runs at a historic rate, the New York Yankees were closing in on a 114-win season and the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays were embarking on their first seasons.
Baseball was hot. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Mark McGwire, #25 of the St. Louis Cardinals, acknowledges the fans after hitting his 70th home run of the season during a game against the Montreal Expos at the Busch Stadium in St.
Louis. (Getty Images) However, the floodgates burst open years later when McGwire, Sosa, and later Barry Bonds, were engulfed in a steroids scandal.