Date: SUN 10/04/98
Section: SPORTS 2
Page: 27
Edition: 2 STAR
What a wonderful, record-breaking year for Craig Biggio - 50 steals and 51 doubles! Roll over Tris Speaker, tell Harry Hooper the news! A truly historic feat. And 210 base hits, an Astros record. Awesome!
And as unprecedented as the performance of baseball's best second baseman and leadoff hitter was, compare it to the magic that was the season of Mark McGwire. Seventy home runs. To put that in perspective, Biggio, with his Astros record number of hits, would have needed to knock every third base hit out of the park. One in three!
What a great season!
Steve Cutchen
Houston