Do you remember when
Bill Goldberg met
Mark McGwire Oh man I sure do, this was such a special time for Me on so many levels
This WCW crossover with MLB happen on 8/31/98 which was on a Monday and Bill Goldberg was WCW World Champion at the time. This is how I found out about it cause Me & My family was watching WCW Monday Nitro and I just flipped out about it, I mean I just totally marked out and yelled "The Man" meets "The Man" (never mind about that Becky Lynch Man crap we have now). I was so excited
98 was a great year in WCW. The Warrior also made an appearance that night too! It was in Miami Florida and Goldberg visited there and met the Homerun King! He and the St. Louis Cardinals was against the Marlins. They won the game but Mark didn't bang any outta the park this time.
So there is a big history about this specil happening and Me. I have kinda talked about it now and then but never in detail. Goldberg won Me over because of the streak
He was an incredible MMA style fighter with uncanny power and speed, It was unbelievable how he would beat everybody and even defeat Hollywood Hogan for the world championship and be a double champ as he held the US belt as well.
I always liked baseball over other sports (Wrestling & Boxing was it). I was just a casual fan thru the years of MLB watching the World Series with My Grandpa (we watched the 96 one with the Braves & Yankees...it was great!)...then McGwire came over from the Oakland As and joined St. Louie's beloved Cards and I was hooked on him. I never a missed a game on TV because of him. He changed My life watching baseball and made Me feel different...it was like when I found Hogan, Jesse, The Warrior, Stallone & Arnold in childhood as My heroes all over again...I mean it was truly indescribable how great it made Me feel back then in 1998...I was only 17
After he broke the record and Sosa followed him it was all so fun with records and the like.
But something happen, I developed My love for Baseball. 1999 came and I was so thrilled because I was so into baseball. I just didn't follow spring training for the Cards but I also followed them along with all 30 teams all season long
In other words I became a huge baseball fan because I realized Mark wasn't the only cool & great player and I got into many of them like Frank Thomas, Griffey jr. A-Rod, Mo & Vince Vaughn, Vinny Castilla, Larry Walker and Dante Bichette, J.T. Snow, Barry Bonds, Jeff Kent among many, many others. I loved it so much I started a huge Upper Deck & Victory Baseball Card collection in 99 (I got all the chase ones too with many great ones of McGwire...took a ton of work to complete - maybe one day I will showcase them?) and I got a lot of MLB figures to of Mark and so on. In fact, I bet I have as much if not more Mark McGwire items than I do of Hulk Hogan and that's a lot
Well, I don't want to discuss Mark's retirement and all what happen after that and we all know about Goldberg's current day.
The brief pictures that I made and posted here is really all that is on the web. That Nitro is on the WWE Network if you are not from the States and I believe every episode is on Peacock but other than that it has pathetically become a forgotten moment of extraordinary times. The pic on the left is the WCW/nWo Magazine that I was really surprised that they featured this on the cover. It had a pretty good feature within the mag. I have this book along with many years worth of WCW mags along with WWF ones over the course of a decade or more as I was a loyal subscriber to both of'em in boxes that are extremely hard to get to down in the basement. Maybe one day I can get them out when I get a chance and show them off...who knows
The pic on the right is them meeting each other shaking hands at Dolphin Stadium. I was like, wow, Mark is as big as Goldberg, Mark really is a big dude!
As this day and age allows very little astounding moments of anything regardless in sports, movies etc. like the past once did, IMO, there has never been anything that rivals this remarkable event since and nothing this great and magical will never, ever happen again...it was once in a lifetime event and believe Me when I say it, it truly was
I may start a old school Baseball topic in the future...there's a ton I can talk about there! Well, I hope I surprised you a bit with this or maybe reminded you of this historical meeting. I know I haven't posted within this topic in a long while and I'm gonna try to be more frequent. Until next time I'll see you around