A Major League Mess; Nobody looked good as Congress spent a long day grilling players and executives about baseball's steroid problems and policies. Can't anybody here save this game?

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Byline: Mark Starr and Eve Conant

There's supposed to be no crying in baseball. But there was Mark McGwire in Washington last week, fighting back tears, his voice choked with emotion, telling a congressional committee investigating steroid use in baseball how he, well, couldn't really tell them much. "My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family or myself," said the retired superstar, whose 70 home runs in 1998 shattered one of baseball's most hallowed records.

Through a long, uncomfortable afternoon before the House Government Reform Committee, McGwire was never forced to literally invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment. But he did refuse to answer any questions about illegal or even legal drugs and, in the end, about almost anything at all....

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