Roland S. Martin : Baseball was in the doldrums until 1998 home-run race . Martin : I was working at KRLD-AM in Dallas , Texas , that summer , and we would break into programming to broadcast the call of their at-bats when they were about to break the record . Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race to break home-run record stirred interest . Martin says baseball had a terrible drug problem . He also talks about how steroids were used by players and coaches, but he doesn't mention that they are banned from MLB now.
Roland S. Martin : Baseball was in the doldrums until 1998 home-run race . Martin : Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race to break home-run record stirred interest . Martin says baseball had a terrible drug problem . He also talks about how steroids were used by players and coaches, but he doesn't mention that they are banned from MLB now.