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In baseball's season of redemption, two men go after the most fabled record in American sports--61 home runs.
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Going ... going ... gone! kiss it goodbye! It's outtahere! The home run--no other event in sports elicits such a multitude of cries (except when fans run out of beer). Once upon a time, when Calvin Coolidge was president, Babe Ruth hit 60 homers in a single season (out-homering every other team in his league). That record stood for 34 years--the most fabled in American sports--until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. Thirty-seven years later, the record again is going ... going ... gone. In the great Home-Run Chase of 1998, two guys may smash the record: a redhead out of St. Louis named…
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