i was there on july 31, 1997 at the phillies vs cardinals game along with 18,408 other fans when the announcement came over the loud speakers that mark mcgwire had just been traded to the st louis cardinals who were in the field at the time. i could see john mabry at first base put his head down and say something under his breath, i was sitting up the first base line. next year i watched as big mac took batting practice before the phillies game and was amazed as he put shot after shot in the greg luzinski dave kingman seats. and during the game he hit what looked like a pop fly off the bat but turned out to be a long homerun to center field.