No. 60 was delivered with the ball marked with a 3. "If that's not fate," Mark McGwire said, "I don't know what is." Fate or not, the summer of '98 was an incredible joy ride, not only for McGwire ...

The last time Kirk and McGwire spoke, when Mark was with the A's and both were ... on the door of the old coach's office, there's a poster. It's from 1998, and it's got a big photo of McGwire ...