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Originally Posted by David Watts
Yeah, but Bud basically promoted the use of roids until it blew up in his face. Balls were wound so tight they were basically superballs, the strike zone was a joke and breaking Roger's record was marketing 101 for years. Too bad big head had to ruin all the fun for Bud and all the sportswriters that couldn't get enough of McGwire and Sosa.
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If the suggestion is that the home run record chase was necessary to revitalize baseball, the evidence indicates it wasn't. Both attendance and revenue were already recovering from the damage (I'd post exact numbers but I'm not on my normal computer at the moment). The McGuire-Sosa home run race certainly helped, and probably made the memory of the strike disappear faster, but it's not as if baseball had been flat through the 1995-97 seasons before McGuire-Sosa battle came along.