Big and scary, he has not only passed Babe Ruth, he is Babe Ruth with better personal habits. At a time when basketball stars bump chests with every free throw and football players turn a routine tackle into a junior prom, he celebrates a historic feat by scooping up his son and blowing a kiss to Roger Maris' family. You can't pay athletes to do that kind of stuff, although you pay them for everything else. When it was all over Monday, somebody asked McGwire if he thought he was a role model, and he pleaded guilty. What's more, he said he was proud of it.
Baseball needs some more of that.
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