Mark McGwire's Home Run Record During the 1998 baseball season, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa have excited fans with the greatest home run race in the history of the game. By mid-September, both players surpassed Roger Maris's single season record of sixty-one homers, set back in 1961. Sosa and McGwire are both great players. However, McGwire has been getting much more media attention; partly because has led the race most of the season, but mainly because he has admitted to using a controversial drug called Androstenedione. Although reactions have varied from casual acceptance to utter disgust, m