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    Mark McGwire

    American baseball player and coach (born )

    For the American musician, see Mark McGuire (musician).

    Baseball player

    Mark McGwire

    McGwire with the San Diego Padres in

    First baseman
    Born: () October 1, (age&#;61)
    Pomona, California, U.S.

    Batted: Right

    Threw: Right

    August 22,&#;,&#;for the&#;Oakland Athletics
    October 7,&#;,&#;for the&#;St. Louis Cardinals
    Batting average
    Home runs
    Runs batted in1,
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    As player

    As coach

    Mark David McGwire (born October 1, ), nicknamed "Big Mac", is an American former professional baseballfirst baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to for the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals. He won two World Series championships, one with Oakland as a player in and one with St. Louis as a coach in One of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history, McGwire hit home runs during his career, which ran

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    Local Charities Benefit From McGwire

    ST. LOUIS — Mark McGwire is a man of his word.

    Sixteen months ago, McGwire tearfully told a television audience about his ambitious plan to help abused children. He pledged $1 million annually for three years to help those too small to defend themselves.

    This week, McGwire cut the first fyra checks from his own konto. Two St. Louis charities and two more in Southern California will get $, each from the Mark McGwire Foundation for Children.

    “God gave me the ability to make people happy and help them out,” McGwire told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

    “This fryst vatten the start of something inom plan to be involved with for a long time to come.”

    The charities in St. Louis are the Evangelical Children’s Home and the Family Resource Center. The foundation chose The Stuart House and the Children’s Institute International as the two California agencies it will support this year.

    All four centers specialize in treating child abuse.

    Since he announc

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    Big Mac's big promise


    EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared on in late September, six months after the Capitol Hill steroids hearings. Since then, Mark McGwire has been all but mum on the subject of his involvement with steroids. His only public statement of note came on Oct. 2 in St. Louis at the final game in Busch Stadium. Then, in response to questions from ESPN, he said, "&#;when I left there [the hearings], I left it there. And the statement that I made there, I made it from my heart, and that's as far as it's going to go. I think -- I'm a very positive person. We should move on from this, especially the media. So, that's really about it &#; I said my statement and that's it. And that's the last time I'm going to talk about it."

    After Mark McGwire made his teary-eyed speech on Capitol Hill, pledging to become a national spokesperson and to redirect his charitable foundation to support anti-steroids programs, a member of the House Government Reform Committee asked

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