Disgraced, steroid-era slugger Mark McGwire has officially signed on as the new hitting coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers after three years in the same capacity for his former team, the St. Louis Cardinals.

The 12-time All-Star is perhaps best-known for breaking Roger Maris' single-season home run record of 61 with 70 homers in 1998, but that record no has an asterisk after it, since McGwire admitted in 2010 that he took performance-enhancing drugs.

After retiring in 2001, he returned to baseball nine years later as the Cardinals hitting coach, helping the team win with World Series in 2011 with his coaching of sluggers like Albert Pujols and David Freese.

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