Sep 6th 2008 1:57PM by Tom Fornelli (author feed)
Just not anything in the past we care to talk about.

Mark McGwire has basically kept himself out of the limelight ever since leaving baseball in 2001, with his infamous appearance at the Congressional hearings on steroids being the lone exception. Well this coming Monday will be the ten year anniversary of the night that Big Mac hit his 62nd home run of the 1998 season, and broke Roger Maris’ longstanding home run record.

So, with that in mind, the man who wasn’t here to talk about the past talked about the past with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.”That day, Sept. 8,” he said, “I had a real calmness about me. It was a very eerie feeling that I didn’t ever experience again or hadn’t experienced before. I remember driving to the ballpark and, even with all the hoopla going on, it probably was the only day I felt so peaceful. It was a premonition that ‘tonight is going to be the night.’

“The whole year was so spiritual, so universal, with so many things that happened,” he said. “I don’t know if people believe this stuff, but I think that when the stars are aligned right, things happen.Continue Reading