New home run heroes

Sporting News, The, May 24, 1999

Through last Saturday, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa still were trying to fight their way into the major league home run race. Chances are they'll be back among the leaders before long, so hem's a list of the current pace-setters, which is littered with unusual suspects:

     1999 PACE    1998 HRs

Ken Griffey Jr.      59
      (13 HRs)       56
  Raul Mondesi       59
      (13 HRs)       30
      Jay Bell       57
      (13 HRs)       20
    David Bell       54
      (12 HRs)       10
  Jose Canseco       53
      (12 HRs)       46
 Matt Williams       53
      (12 HRs)       20
   Shawn Green       51
      (12 HRs)       35
   Brian Giles       51
      (11 HRs)       16
Fernando Tatis       51
      (11 HRs)       11
  Fred McGriff       48
      (11 HRs)       19
    Sammy Sosa       44
       (9 HRs)       66
  Mark McGwire       37
       (8 HRs)       70