For the American musician, see Mark McGuire (musician).
Baseball player
Mark McGwire
McGwire with the San Diego Padres in 2017
First baseman
Born: (1963-10-01) October 1, 1963 (age 60) Pomona, California, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 22, 1986, for the Oakland Athletics
Last MLB appearance
October 7, 2001, for the St. Louis Cardinals
MLB statistics
Batting average
.263
Home runs
583
Runs batted in
1,414
Teams
As player
Oakland Athletics (1986–1997)
St. Louis Cardinals (1997–2001)
As coach
St. Louis Cardinals (2010–2012)
Los Angeles Dodgers (2013–2015)
San Diego Padres (2016–2018)
Career highlights and awards
12× All-Star (1987–1992, 1995–2000)
2× World Series champion (1989, 2011)
AL Rookie of the Year (1987)
Gold Glove Award (1990)
3× Silver Slugger Award (1992, 1996, 1998)
5× MLB home run leader (1987, 1996–1999)
NL RBI leader (1999)
Athletics Hall of Fame
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame
Major League Baseball All-Century Team
Medals
Representing United States
Men's Baseball
Summer Olympics
1984 Los Angeles
Team
Pan American Games
1983 Caracas
Team
Intercontinental Cup
1983 Brussels
Team
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball first baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1986 to 2001 for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in 1989 and one with St. Louis as a coach in 2011. One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, McGwire hit 583 home runs during his career, which ranked 5th-most in MLB history at the time of his retirement and currently ranks 11th.[1] He holds the major-league career record for at bats per home run ratio (10.6), and is the former record holder for both home runs in a single season (70 in 1998) and home runs hit by a rookie (49 in 1987). McGwire was one of several central figures in baseball's steroids scandal.
McGwire led the major leagues in home runs in five different seasons, and set the major-league record for home runs hit in a four-season period from 1996 to 1999 with 245. He demonstrated exemplary patience as a batter, producing a career .394 on-base percentage (OBP) and twice leading the major leagues in bases on balls. McGwire also led the league in runs batted in once, on-base percentage twice, and slugging percentage four times. Injuries cut short even greater potential, as he reached 140 games played in just eight of 16 total seasons. Injuries particularly cut into his playing time in 2000 and 2001 and factored into his decision to retire. A right-handed batter and thrower, McGwire stood 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall and weighed 245 pounds (111 kg) during his playing career.
With the Cardinals in 1998, McGwire joined Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa in a chase for the single-season home-run record set by Roger Maris in 1961. McGwire surpassed Maris and finished with 70 home runs,[2] a record that Barry Bonds would break three years later with 73.[3]
In 2010, McGwire publicly admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs during a large portion of his career.[4]
^"Mark McGwire Stats". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
^"Progressive Leaders & Records for Home Runs". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
^"Bonds testified that substances didn't work". ESPN.com. Associated Press. June 24, 2020. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
^Kepner, Tyler (January 11, 2010). "McGwire Admits That He Used Steroids". The New York Times. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseball first baseman who played 16 seasons in Major...
Brett Favre go in the second round. McGwire's older brother is former Major League Baseball player MarkMcGwire. From his previous marriage to Dana Orlich...
During Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1998 season, MarkMcGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs pursued the league's long-standing...
in MLB history to hit 600 career home runs. In 1998, Sosa, along with MarkMcGwire, achieved international fame for his home run-hitting prowess in pursuit...
are a duo of former baseball players consisting of Jose Canseco and MarkMcGwire. Both prolific home run hitters, the two were teammates in Major League...
56 homers. Both McGwire and Sosa broke the record in September, with McGwire ultimately finishing with 70 homers to Sosa's 66. McGwire's record would last...
Jose Canseco and Schaffer as MarkMcGwire. It is presented as a rap album written and performed by Canseco and McGwire in the 1980s, when the pair was...
legitimacy of his record. Maris' major league record remained unbroken until MarkMcGwire surpassed it in 1998; his AL record stood until 2022, when Aaron Judge...
league's seasonal lead. MarkMcGwire, for example, hit 58 home runs in 1997, more than any other player that year. However, McGwire was traded from the American...
Tiger Stadium (the other three are Harmon Killebrew, Frank Howard and MarkMcGwire). He hit the homer off Oakland Athletic Dave Stewart on August 25, 1990...
Tiger Stadium (joining Harmon Killebrew, Frank Howard, Cecil Fielder and MarkMcGwire). However, the ball struck a light tower on top of the roof and fell...
right-handed batter, (Jimmie Foxx, 1932); the mark stood for 66 years until it was broken by Sammy Sosa and MarkMcGwire in 1998. Greenberg also had a 59th home...
kings of Fermanagh. The surname has been anglicized variously as McGuire, McGwire, McGwyre and most commonly, Maguire (from variant form Mag Uidhir). The...
rookie to hit 30 home runs before the All-Star break (the first was MarkMcGwire in 1987) and the first Yankee to do so since Alex Rodriguez in 2007....
and the 1989 World Series behind the "Bash Brothers", Jose Canseco and MarkMcGwire, as well as Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson and manager...
Mark Eugene Grace (born June 28, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who spent 13 seasons with the Chicago Cubs and three...
having used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) between 2001 and 2003. MarkMcGwire, dogged by allegations of PED use for years, admitted in January 2010...
Archived from the original on July 8, 2019. Retrieved July 8, 2019. Feinsand, Mark (July 8, 2019). "Polar Bear Pete! Alonso wins Home Run Derby". Major League...
Cooperstown. Seven eligible club members—Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, MarkMcGwire, Palmeiro, Manny Ramirez, Gary Sheffield and Sammy Sosa—have not been...
confidence and swagger of a heavily favored team. The "Bash Brothers" duo of MarkMcGwire (32 home runs, 99 RBI, .260 batting average) and José Canseco (42 home...
Players' Association (MLBPA) and was presented to the inaugural winner – MarkMcGwire – in 1997 as the "Man of the Year Award". Three years later, it was renamed...
finished 20th in the American League MVP ballot. In 1987, first baseman MarkMcGwire joined Canseco on the Athletics. On that roster the A's also had slugger...
Global Information
