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Mark McGwire Apologized to Roger Maris's Widow
More details on the Mark McGwire steroids story from USA Today:
Before coming clean publicly, [McGwire] informed his family and made apologetic phone calls to Commissioner Bud Selig, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and Don Hooton, a Texas man who took up the anti-steroids fight after his son committed suicide after taking steroids.
He also contacted Pat Maris, widow of Roger Maris, whose 61 home runs hit in 1961 was the single-season record until McGwire hit his 62nd homer on Sept. 8, 1998.
"She didn't want to believe it," McGwire said of his conversation with Pat Maris. "I told her that I had to be honest. I told her I was so sorry for her, her family and Roger."
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I enjoyed reading Mark Wiegand's comments. I agree with everything that Mr. Wiegand said, especially that Roger Maris' record should be re-instated and that Roger should be put in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The only way for Roger to get into the HOF is for the Baseball Veterans Committee to vote him in. So, let's all write a letter to the Veterans Committee asking them to vote Roger into the HOF. I did and you can only do it one time per election period. So, please if you care about Roger and is family, send the HOF Veterans Committee a letter.