Things picked back up in the late 1990s, with more fans piling into more parks than ever before.
There was some thought that fans came back because of the sudden surge of offense via the most exciting thing in the game, the home run.
Things really picked up in 1998 when Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr. and Greg Vaughn all finished with 50 or more home runs, with McGwire and Sosa both eclipsing the record set by Roger Maris in 1961. Nine other players slugged over 40 homers.
A whole bunch of failed drug tests, grand jury indictments and 13 years later left people connecting the dots between that power surge and the use of performance enhancing drugs. Most notable of course being steroids.
So while saying home runs saved baseball was cliche at the time, there ...
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