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 ...

Eventually, McGwire distanced himself from his old buddies. It started, friends say, when a member of that core group tried to capitalize off Mark's name. An already private man was realizing that ...