"If that's not fate," Mark McGwire said, "I don't know what is ... the hell out of the other kids," said Tom Carroll, Damien's coach. "He had that high kick and that long stride and it looked ...

Kirk still laughs, remembering Mark running down the street one ... "I saw the bit with the Congress," says Jack Helber, McGwire's American Legion coach. "And that was somewhat, ahhhh, that ...