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During Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1998 season, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs pursued the league's long-standing and highly coveted single-season home run record (61), set in 1961 by Roger Maris. The season-long chase culminated on September 8, 1998, when McGwire, facing Sosa and the Cubs, hit his 62nd home run of the season to break the record. McGwire finished the season with 70 home runs, while Sosa finished with 66. The 1998 home run record chase, as well the previous's year pursuit of the record, was widely credited by sports analysts with restoring interest in MLB among its fan base following the 1994 strike that resulted in that season prematurely ending and the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. McGwire's record was later broken in

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  • 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase (en)
  • 1998年のMLBシーズン最多本塁打記録対決 (ja)
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  • 1998年のMLBシーズン最多本塁打記録対決は、メジャーリーグベースボールに於ける、マーク・マグワイア一塁手(セントルイス・カージナルス)と、サミー・ソーサ右翼手(シカゴ・カブス)による、1998年のナショナルリーグ本塁打王争い。同年、マスコミを中心に話題となった。 両者共、1961年にニューヨーク・ヤンキースのロジャー・マリスが樹立した、シーズン61本塁打のMLB記録を更新するほどのハイレベルな争いとなり、最終的にマグワイアが70本塁打、ソーサが66本塁打で終えた。1994年からの232日間に及ぶ長期ストライキ以降に、大きく落ち込んでいたMLB全体の観客動員数も、1998年シーズンはスト以前の水準にまで戻るほどの盛り上がりを見せた。 マグワイアは、シアトル・マリナーズのケン・グリフィー・ジュニアと共にアメリカ野球人気復活の立役者となり、このシーズンに成績を大きく向上させたソーサも、母国・ドミニカ共和国の国民的英雄となった。なお、マグワイアが樹立した70本塁打のシーズン本塁打記録は、3年後の2001年にバリー・ボンズ(サンフランシスコ・ジャイアンツ)によって破られ、73本塁打に更新された。 (ja)
  • During Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1998 season, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs pursued the league's long-standing and highly coveted single-season home run record (61), set in 1961 by Roger Maris. The season-long chase culminated on September 8, 1998, when McGwire, facing Sosa and the Cubs, hit his 62nd home run of the season to break the record. McGwire finished the season with 70 home runs, while Sosa finished with 66. The 1998 home run record chase, as well the previous's year pursuit of the record, was widely credited by sports analysts with restoring interest in MLB among its fan base following the 1994 strike that resulted in that season prematurely ending and the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. McGwire's record was later broken in (en)
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