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I got three amazing fics for the ClickHole article An Oral History of the 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase. Serendipitously, they all complement each other perfectly by covering different parts of history in pitch-perfect fashion.

The Extended 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (3406 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Randy Johnson, Willie Mays, Bud Selig, Santa Claus, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa
Summary:

Or, how Willie Mays and two horny dicks saved the world, baseball, and also Christmas

an oral history of the 2019 major league baseball juiced ball dingerfest (3020 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article), Baseball RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Rob Manfred, Bud Selig, Joe Girardi, Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, Will Smith (Baseball b. 1995), Pete Alonso, Brodie van Wagenen
Summary:

Randy Johnson (photographer; member, Baseball Hall of Fame): Rob Manfred found me somehow. I don’t know how. I thought, 20 years ago, it had been enough. I was in my backyard taking some photos of birds and Rob stood on my deck and said, “Randy, you have to help us out with a project,” and I said, “I will only help you if it’s a photography project, Rob, I am retired now, you can go to my website to look at my photos,” and Rob said, “if you didn’t want to help us, you shouldn’t have given up that goddamn moonshot to McGwire.”

A Narrative History of the Home Run (1031 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article), Baseball RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Willie Mays, Barry Bonds
Summary:

Willie Mays invented the home run.

I feel so fortunate that three people shared this ridiculousness with me this Yuletide. ♥