It's Steroid Week here at B/R, and one of the first orders of business is to look back at the proper beginning of Major League Baseball's Steroid Era.
The race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa for the single-season home run record in 1998.
At the start of that season, Roger Maris' 61 home runs in 1961 had stood as the record for nearly 40 years. But McGwire, who starred for the St. Louis Cardinals, and Sosa, who starred for the Chicago Cubs, waged an all-out assault on it that was eventually successful for both players.