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Back in the spring of 1981, a then 17-year-old high school senior had to make one of the biggest decisions of his life. No, it wasn't about whom he was going to take to the prom or whether or not to try beer. Mark McGwire was given the weighty decision of whether he would start a professional baseball career as a pitcher with the Montreal Expos, or accept a baseball scholarship at the University of Southern California. He chose the latter and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? Every chapter in McGwire the Pitcher: Baseball's Alternate History examines some of the biggest decisions in baseball history, some tragic and some trivial, to see what might have happened, if, at a critical moment, the choice was altered. The casual wonders of baseball fans are answered in the historical fiction vignettes of McGwire the Pitcher.