“Now I get the honor of wearing two beautiful jackets,” said McGwire, who was similarly honored by St. Louis. “It would have to be a stupid number that I don’t think anybody could give,” McFarlane said when asked what price it would take for him to give up the ball. For that, he was named the AL Rookie of the Year. TMZ Sports estimates the current value of the ball to be around $300,000-400,000. NEW YORK, UNITED STATES: Todd McFarlane holds Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball at a press conference 08 February in New York. McGwire, in his 10th and last attempt to gain entry into the Cooperstown shrine, finished with 12.3 percent of the vote. McGwire appeared on the Today’s Game Era ballot (a veterans committee ballot) in 2016 but was left off the next one. 10. The highest percentage of votes he received on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot was 23.7, far short of the 75% needed for election. The Home Run chase of 1998 between McGwire and Sosa was the first “must-see” baseball event following the strike. Mark McGwire enters the Coliseum field for his A’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony. We'll never pass along your email address to spammers, scammers, or the like. McGwire has been denied a place in baseball’s Hall of Fame in part because he used performance-enhancing drugs, which he confirmed in 2010. Putting on this jacket, it’s a lot of them. “One red and one green, so we’ll be looking good at Christmas time.”. As noted, he's 10th on the all-time homers list, and his career SLG of .588 ranks eighth. “We brought the game back,” McGwire said, referring to baseball’s immense popularity in 1998, four years after the players’ strike wiped out the World Series. McGwire returns to the BBWAA ballot for the ninth year after receiving votes on 11.0 percent of ballots in 2014. ... Sosa and Mark McGwire … Mark McGwire, winner of the 1998 home run race, is visibly emotional as he is inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame. During a call with reporters, he sounded pragmatic when he was asked about his last chance to get into the Hall. A partial list of currently blacklisted Hall of Fame nominees – Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds. Simply put, McGwire's case lies in his astounding power outputs. McGwire, 55, played for three A’s World Series teams and was the first baseman on the 1989 team that swept the Giants. Piazza, who played with A's in his last MLB season, elected. McGwire finished his career with 583 home runs but was not elected to the Hall of Fame in any of his 10 years on the ballot from 2007-2016, only ever getting as high as 23.7 percent of the vote and finishing with 12.3 in his final year of eligibility. John Shea is The Chronicle’s national baseball writer. He has been considered as a finalist on the Today’s Game Era ballot but not yet enshrined. The Baseball Hall of Fame has an abundance of worthy candidates yet to be enshrined. The A’s inducted their second class Saturday night. • Complete Hall of Fame coverage McGwire has never been named on more than 23.7 percent of the ballots since he became eligible in 2007. We did a lot of things, and I’m glad we did it.”. He said he missed this year’s 1989 reunion to be with one of his sons in North Carolina as he was trying out for a USA Baseball team.
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