Mark McGwire Uses Steroids

Mark McGwire was one of the best players in the MLB during the 1990’s. He stood 6 feet 5 inches and weighed 250 pounds. With the size and strength he had in the 1990’s he became the single season homerun record holder. In 1998 Mark McGwire hit 70 homeruns in a close chase with Sammy Sosa. They battled out for the record all the way to the end of the season until Mark McGwire pulled away. McGwire set himself into the history books during this time with his homerun hitting ability. His other statistics were not anything spectacular but his homeruns were up there with the best. Mark McGwire is known as a homerun hitter because that is what he was best at. After he retired the question began to come up did Mark McGwire take steroids. Most didn’t ask to much and just believed he didn’t. McGwire even implied that he didn’t in a court testimony and said the past is the past.

This year Mark McGwire came clean and let everyone know that he did take steroids during the 1990’s. He said it was only to recover from injury and that it did not improve his homerun hitting ability. This could be true because other than his record setting season his statistics in homeruns stayed relatively close to the same. He didn’t have an unusually large jump in homeruns anytime during his career so it is very possible the steroids didn’t help his homerun hitting. McGwire finally came out after all of these years being retired. If this was true that the steroids were not taken to help his homeruns then why did he not come out sooner. If the steroids strictly helped him recover then why would he not admit to taking steroids much sooner than now. Why did Mark McGwire wait until he starts to coach and gets back into the MLB to admit to this? He should have come out much sooner if it really didn’t help him hit homeruns. The steroids obviously helped him hit homeruns or he wouldn’t have waited until he had to come clean. Mark McGwire took steroids and it helped him hit homeruns. It is a good thing that he finally came out and admitted to his steroid usage hopefully he can get passed this and become a good MLB coach. The Video below is provided by youtube.com and is of McGwire talking about his steroid use.