"If that's not fate," Mark McGwire said, "I don't know what is ... The next season he belted a major-league leading 52 in 423 at-bats. In 1997, he had 34 homers in 105 games when he was traded ...
On this date in 1997, Seattle Mariners' legend Randy Johnson surrendered one of the longest home runs you'll ever see to Mark McGwire of the Oakland Athletics. Statcast wasn't around in 1997 ...