‘Long Gone Summer’ Trailer: Sammy Sosa And Mark McGwire Swing For Home Run Supremacy
Following the massive success of the Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls documentary seriesThe Last Dance, ESPN is trying to keep the hype alive byreleasing new30 for 30sports documentarieson Sundays. One of them will beLong Gone Summer, which chronicles the famous home run battle in the summer of 1998 between St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire and Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa. The firstLong Gone Summertrailer has arrived to tease the film’s arrival next week.
Long Gone Summer Trailer
Though fans latched on to the battle between Sosa and McGwire as a huge moment for sports, it would later be sullied by the news that Sammy Sosaused banned performance-enhancing drugsand Mark McGwireconsistently used steroidsthroughout his career. But even so many still look back on that season of baseball as a highlight, mostly because it was a beacon of light at a time when the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Kosovo War were dominating headlines. Looking back after 22 years should provide plenty of thoughtful hindsight on this historical moment in baseball.
Long Gone Summeris directed byA.J. Schnack(Kurt Cobain About a Son, We Always Lie to Strangers), and here’s the official synopsis from ESPN.
In ESPN’s new 30 for 30 film “Long Gone Summer,” director AJ Schnack takes viewers back to the landmark 1998 baseball season – its tremendous highlights, massive impact, and undeniable complications. Featuring in-depth interviews with both McGwire and Sosa, talking at length for the first time in over two decades, the intimate portrait carries viewers through every twist and turn of the sluggers' historic chase of Roger Maris’s iconic record of 61 home runs in a single season. With a musical score composed by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, a St. Louis-area native and current Chicago resident, the film is a journey back through time that recalls how seismic and emotional the story was – even as the legitimacy of the accomplishments at its center would later be called into question.
Long Gone Summerdebuts on ESPN on Sunday,June 14at 9:00 P.M. ET
