What is the reason why mark mcgwire grew a mullet, a mustache, and a goatee years ago?”
Mac is Back! La Russa to Install Mark McGwire as Cardinals Hitting Coach By Chad Garrison in Baseball, News Mon., Oct. 26 2009 @ 8:29AM I thought I was still slumbering this morning when I opened up the paper to read that Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is expected to sign a new two-year deal with the club on the condition that the Redbirds also sign tainted slugger Mark McGwire as hitting coach. mcgwire.jpg A triumphant return for Mr. McGwire? According to the Post-Dispatch, La Russa will sign a two-year, $8.5-million extension today with the Cardinals and lay out his plans for replacing hitting coach Hal McRae with McGwire. La Russa and McGwire are old friends dating back to their days with the Oakland A’s in the 1980s and early ’90s. It was with the Cardinals, though, that McGwire’s homerun swing took off with the first-basemen hitting 70 dingers in 1998 to smash Roger Maris’ longtime record of 61. La Russa has also remained a staunch McGwire apologist following allegations that the
