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All summer, McGwire and Sosa traded home runs while the whole country checked the tally on the nightly news. The 1998 chase for Roger Maris's record turned baseball back into must-see TV—and its record book now reads very differently.
A sold-out Rose Bowl, a scoreless final that came down to penalty kicks, and Brandi Chastain on her knees with her jersey in her fist. The 1999 Women's World Cup was the summer American girls saw a stadium of 90,000 people screaming for a women's team — and sports in this country were never quite the same.