Debating whether Mark McGwire should be in the baseball Hall of Fame 18 Articles

by Kory Ross

This is a question that will haunt Major League Baseball until todays players are long retired. During this time frame we call the "steroid era" we have been witness to many extraordinary feats. We have seen the single sea...read more

by Jim Hyatt

Love him or loathe him, no one can argue with the fact that Mark David McGwire accomplished some pretty impressive things during his 16 years in the Major Leagues. He won the American League Rookie of the Year award and p...read more

by Michael Mccormick

The Hall of Fame. Fame is a fickle thing. So quickly will the public turn its back on someone who was once an untouchable idol in the celebrity world. I watched it happen with Pete Rose. It is just a joke to me that baseba...read more

by James Douglas Doorsman

Mr. Mark McGwire is not a Hall of Famer not because he may have done steroids but because the statistics don't support Hall of Fame credentials. Performance enhancing drugs have been used throughout time to boost an athle...read more

by Jason Mcgathey

Baseball has finally reached a point where its fans - and ownership/management figures - no longer place so much importance on statistics as they have in the past. Call it an inevitable fallout from the era of chemical blo...read more

by Amanda Fox

As much fun as the Big Mac was to watch on his historic home run race he is not a hall of famer. I won't argue the steroid or human growth hormone (HGH) angle this point, I will argue what he did on the field. McGwire was ...read more

by Jay Nolan

Mark McGwire was an excellent home run hitter. We had fun watching him and Sammy Sosa pursue Roger Maris' single season record of 61 home runs. He may have even saved baseball. But one thing we can't seem to overlook is th...read more

by Bruce Bostwick

This is subject to debate on does he deserve to go to the Hall of Fame. In 1998, he set the record season record until 2001 at 70 Home Runs that particular season. Nobody questioned it at least not majorly in the 1st pla...read more

by JoAnn Powell

The debate on whether or not Mark McGwire should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame will continue until he is either elected by the writers or is no longer eligible to appear on the ballot. Tarnished by his association with ...read more

by Tom Koecke

As a private organization, the Baseball Hall of Fame inarguably has the right to include and exclude whoever they wish for whatever reasons they wish. To that end, Mark McGwire should not be in the Baseball Hall of Fame un...read more

by Matthew Soo

The 2008 Baseball Hall of Fame vote is in and Mark McGwire has once again been denied electability. Thank goodness. Being from St. Louis, I was a huge Mark McGwire fan. I say 'was' because I am no longer that loyal fan ...read more

by Dan Dawson

Well, give me a minute to think about this one, don't really need the entire 60 seconds.... Oh NO NO NO NO a thousand times NO! Even in todays permissive society, with so many shades of gray, Isn't cheating still cheatin...read more

by Chad Morgan

When I think of a particular season to remember in Major League Baseball, my mind goes back to that magical Summer of 1998. Sammy vs. Big Mac. Alot of people tend to forget that Griffey, Jr. was in that mix until late sum...read more

by Richard Feleppa

Mark McGwire should not be voted into the Hall of Fame for four reasons. The first reason is for his lame sidestepping of the steroid issue in front of Congress, stating" Let s not talk about the past but of b...read more

by Keith Smitherman

Steroids are classified as performance enhancing drugs. Did Mark take steroids? At the congressional hearing he refused to answer direct questions about the subject. He did say that he would use any celebrity influence tha...read more

by Adam Smith

He should not be in the hall. This is a hard decision. Mark McGwire was a great player, even before he started using human growth hormones. If he would have stayed off the steroids he would have no doubt been able to make ...read more

by Daniel Sparks

I can't speak of Mark McGuire without also speaking of Barry Bonds. These are two of the biggest names to come under scrutiny in the baseball steroid scandal. I'm of strong opinion that these two players were just slick en...read more

by Robert Dye

I have a beef with big mac not getting into the hof this year. Before you go giving me the steroid lecture, lets think about this. As part of the bash brothers in the late 80's, he helped win a world series. He put the A's...read more