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photo and manipulation by Jennifer Silverberg

As anyone who's not been living in a sensory-deprivation tank is aware, former St. Louis Cardinals first baseman and steroid-I-mean-home-run king Mark McGwire looms among the new names on this year's Hall of Fame ballot.

While you ponder which way to wager on the McGwire-to-Cooperstown proposition (and, while you're at it, perhaps, a McGwire/Jose Canseco Bash Brothers parlay), you can peruse ESPN.com's whopping (for them, anyway) 3500-word piece on the reclusive sluggah here.

-Unreal