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Article: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL; STEROID SCANDAL; When game needed help, the long ball was the cure, but the cost seems too high.(SPORTS)(Patrick Reusse)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 4, 2004
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Byline: Patrick Reusse; Staff Writer
The 1994 World Series was wiped out by a players strike. Baseball's solution for coming back from this travesty was to offer fans a chance to see home runs with more frequency and more majesty.
Come midsummer, the Home Run Contest on Monday night started receiving more television hype than did the All-Star Game itself on Tuesday night.
Watch Big Mac hit a moon shot. Watch Sammy knock out a section of a distant center field scoreboard. Watch Barry hit rockets to right.
The ESPN analysts and the lowly sportswriters tried to explain the phenomenon to the sporting public. We pointed out that the newer ...