On this day in 1998 Mark McGwire broke the home run record - A Hunt and Peck - Viva El Birdos

It was a countdown like no other - that 1998 season was unlike anything we'd ever seen before! Thirty-seven years after Roger Maris took down Babe

Mark McGwire 70 St. Louis Cardinals Home Run King Poster - Costacos 1998

Sept. 27, 1998: McGwire hits 70 and is saluted as 'the new American sports hero

Mark McGwire's 45th home run of 1998

Mark mcgwire run record hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

McGwire hits record-breaking 62nd home run

Buck calls McGwire's 62nd homer of 1998

Mark mcgwire run record hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Sept. 27, 1998: McGwire hits 70 and is saluted as 'the new American sports hero

Mark McGwire's 62nd HR made him, temporarily, an American hero - Sports Illustrated Vault