The 1998 baseball season might be remembered for the historic home run chase by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, but on the South Side of Chicago, there was another special season that has long been overlooked.
And unlike McGwire and Sosa, the man responsible for it says he wasn’t fueled by PEDs.
“It was probably one of the greatest second halves in the history of baseball without an asterisk next to it,” Albert Belle said of his 1998 season on the White Sox Talk Podcast, clearly taking aim at the two oversized home run leaders from that year.