Missouri Ends Drive on McGwire’s Highway of Deception
Posted on | March 3, 2010 |
Filed under: Cardinals
It’s a stretch along I-70 that welcomes people to downtown St. Louis, like a welcome mat, really. A first impression. And the Missouri Senate has voted unanimously to take down the signs showing its honorary name and change that stretch to Mark Twain Highway. It had been this:
Mark McGwire Highway.
So at least the government is hitting the right Mark now.
I’m sure there is some good lesson in this, but my first thought is this:
One of America’s great literary figures is Plan B to a cheating baseball player. Somehow, this is a cross between an insult to Twain and straight comedy.
“When a person cannot deceive himself, the chances are against his being able to deceive other people,” Twain once wrote.
You see how timeless he was? It’s as if he said that right after McGwire’s testimony in Washington at the steroid hearing.
The road had been named after Twain, and then was switched in 1999, the year after McGwire hit 70 home runs.
That’s 70 more, after all, than Huck Finn ever hit.
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