Samuel Peralta Sosa (born November 12, 1968) is a Dominican-American former professional baseball right fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Chicago Cubs. After playing for the Texas Rangers and Chicago White Sox, Sosa joined the Cubs in 1992 and became regarded as one of the game's best hitters.

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2020年6月15日 · Sammy Sosa no longer looks like he did during the 1990s when he battled Mark McGwire for home run supremacy. His change in appearance has been the subject of …

Sammy became the first player in major league history to have a trio of 60-homer seasons, going deep 64 times while batting .328 with 160 RBI ... finished 2nd in the National League Most Valuable Player voting.

2025年1月18日 · Sammy Sosa, Dominican professional baseball player who, with Mark McGwire, entertained fans with a series of home run races in the late 1990s that rewrote the record books. In 1999 Sosa became the first player to hit 60 homers in two seasons.

2014年4月2日 · Sammy Sosa is a former professional baseball player who spent the peak years of his career with the Chicago Cubs. In 1998, Sosa was caught up in race with Mark McGwire of the St....

2025年1月18日 · Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts announced that both Sosa and former first baseman Derrek Lee will be the 2025 inductees for the team’s Hall. Their careers overlapped in 2004, when Sosa was nearing the end of a historic run with the ballclub that included a club-record 545 homers and Lee was helping usher in a new era on the North Side.

2018年5月23日 · Sammy Sosa, the Chicago Cubs outfielder who was involved in the most dramatic home run race in baseball history in 1998, evolved into one of the most well-rounded and best-loved players of the early 2000s. Early in his career, Sosa was an offensive force with weak defensive and baserunning skills.

2012年1月4日 · Who is the real Sammy Sosa? Is he the charismatic slugger whose home-run race with Mark McGwire brought baseball’s fandom back from the ruins of the 1994 strike? Is he the Dominican shoeshine boy from a poverty-stricken family who became a hero in his country and the United States?

Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa slugged his way to fame and revived flagging attendance at American baseball games by challenging the 1961 hitting record of New York Yankees slugger Roger Maris. In 1998 fans and newcomers to the game sat on edge anticipating Sosa's next swat of …