Additional reporting by Dan Hajducky.
In the seventh inning of a game against Baltimore on May 26, 1995, Ken Griffey Jr. tracked a towering fly ball to right-center off the bat of Orioles outfielder Kevin Bass. Near the wall, he jumped up and his feet splayed in midair like an Olympic hurdler's. Griffey stuck his right cleat into the Kingdome's northwest green padding, just to the right of the 380-foot sign, and made a backhanded catch. Randy Johnson, who had thrown the pitch, collapsed to the turf. Johnson knew immediately, like everyone else who was watching, that he had witnessed one of the best catches in baseball history.