A Swing and a Hit? Mark McGwire’s Media Tour

Following an admission that he used steroids when he broke baseball’s single-season home run record in 1998, former major leaguer Mark McGwire embarked on a day long media tour. The communications specialists from Beyond the Hype weigh in on McGwire’s “road to repairing his reputation” and explain why “the worst is over.”



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