Sosa caught fire in June, hitting a major league record 20 home runs in the month, and his home run race with Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire transformed the pair into international superstars in a matter of weeks.

He has the seventh-highest slugging percentage lifetime of any ballplayer in major league history, at. 605, ahead of such sluggers as Mark McGwire and Joe DiMaggio.

He matched what was then the single-season home run record by a right-handed batter, ( Jimmy Foxx, 1932 ); the mark would stand for 66 years until it was broken by Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.

Since then, only Ted Williams ( 1960, 29 ), Dave Kingman ( 1986 ; 35 ), Mark McGwire ( 2001 ; 29 ), and Barry Bonds ( 2007 ; 28 ) have hit as many or more homers in their final season.

* Mark McGwire ( born 1963 ), American baseball player

Mark David McGwire ( born October 1, 1963 ), nicknamed " Big Mac ", is an American former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Finally, a " Fourth Dynasty " won three consecutive pennants and the 1989 World Series behind Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco and Dennis Eckersley.

In 1998, Sosa and Mark McGwire achieved national fame for their home run-hitting prowess in pursuit of Roger Maris ' home run record.

It was in this season that both Sosa and Mark McGwire were involved in the " home run record chase ", when both players ' prowess for hitting home runs drew national attention as they attempted to pass Roger Maris ' single season home run mark of 61 home runs that had stood since.

In the season, Sosa hit 63 home runs, again trailing Mark McGwire who hit 65.

Previously, Sosa sat alongside Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire at a 2005 hearing before Congress.

The players and languages featured were Ken Griffey Jr. ( English ), Alex Rodriguez ( Spanish ), Chan Ho Park ( Korean ), Kazuhiro Sasaki ( Japanese ), Graeme Lloyd ( English, with an Australian accent ), Eric Gagne ( French ), Andruw Jones ( Dutch ), John Franco ( Italian ), Ivan Rodriguez ( Spanish ), and Mark McGwire ( English ).

* October 1 – Mark McGwire, American baseball player

* Mac, a nickname for Mark McGwire, a former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals

On June 24, Griffey hit his 583rd and 584th career home runs, tying and passing Mark McGwire for 7th place on the all-time career home run list.

McFarlane bought at auction multiple balls from Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's 1998 race to establish a record for the greatest number of home runs hit in a single season.

In, Mark McGwire joined Canseco on the Athletics ; McGwire hit 49 home runs that year and was also named the American League Rookie of the Year.

He won the AL Silver Slugger award, but his comeback was missed by most fans because of the home run race in the National League between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

In the book, Canseco specifically identified former teammates Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Jason Giambi, Iván Rodríguez and Juan González as fellow steroid users, and admitted that he injected them.

He helped Mark McGwire in his media strategy for his admission of steroid usage.

Oakland Athletics power hitters Mark McGwire, José Canseco, and Jason Giambi played for the Tacoma Tigers on their way to baseball stardom.

* Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa each chase the home run record set previously by Roger Maris in 1961.

* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Mark McGwire, Major League Baseball

The ball that Mark McGwire hit for home run number 62 in 1998, for example, was sold for over 1 million dollars.

Schweitzer found many New Testament references to apparently show that 1st-century Christians believed literally in the imminent fulfillment of the promise of the World's ending, within the lifetime of Jesus's original followers, He noted that in the gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks of a " tribulation ", with his coming in the clouds with great power and glory " ( St Mark ), and states when it will happen: " This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled " ( St Matthew, 24: 34 ) ( or, " have taken place " ( Luke 21: 32 )): " All these things shall come upon this generation " ( Matthew 23: 36 ).

A number of his manuscripts remain in the library of St Mark at Venice.

In painting, there was only a portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher, a Madonna and Child ( 1526 ), Salvator Mundi ( 1526 ), and two panels showing St. John with St. Peter in background and St. Paul with St. Mark in the background.

The relic of St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria is currently preserved under the new Saint Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Deir El-Anba Rowais, Abbassiya, Cairo, Egypt.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Mark Master Masons No. 1188 was consecrated on the 30 March 1955, it currently meets on the third Thursday in February, April, June, August & October

St. Jerome records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by Saint Mark himself.

St. Mark Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria

From that point onward, Alexandria would have two patriarchs: the non-Chalcedonian native Egyptian one, now known as the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of St. Mark and the " Melkite " or Imperial Patriarch, now known as the Greek Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa.

St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Bellaire, Texas

* The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is known as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle.

* The Successor of St. Mark the Evangelist, Holy Apostle and Martyr, on the Holy Apostolic Throne of the Great City of Alexandria.

He was buried in Cortyna ( Gortyna ), Crete ; his head was later translated to Venice during the invasion of Crete by the Saracens in 832 and was enshrined in St. Mark ’ s, Venice, Italy.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

* 1956 – Mark St. John, American musician ( Kiss ) ( d. 2007 )

In 1513 he went to Rome, where he painted a Peter and Paul, now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, while from the following years are the St. Mark Evangelist of Palazzo Pitti in Florence and the frescoes in the Dominican convent of Pian di Mugnone.

These qualities were alleged against him as defects, and to prove that his style was not the result of want of power, he painted the magnificent figure of the St. Mark Evangelist ( ranked as his masterpiece ), and the undraped figure of Saint Sebastian.

This is apparent in the way both authors treat the chapel of St. Mark.

His description of the Doge ’ s close relationship with the saint, through the “ solemn pomp ” with which he attends mass at the saint ’ s chapel, attaches him to the aforementioned “ exceeding honour ”, in a similar fashion to the way in which Sanudo glorifies Venice as a whole by constantly referring to the beauty and worth of St. Mark ’ s square and chapel as part of his panoramic praise of the city.

Some of the other famous guests who lived there include: Augustus St. Gaudens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Robert Lowell, Horton Foote, Salvador Dalí, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and many others.