Sammy Sosa Chicago Cubs Publications

Sports Illustrated August 25, 2003 Sammy Sosa/Chicago Cubs, Michael Vick's Broken Leg, Shaun Micheel/PGA Golf, Rutgers Football

Sammy Sosa is a Major League Baseball right fielder who played for the Cubs from 1992 to 2004. Sosa's Major League career began when he broke in with the Texas Rangers in 1989. In the intervening years, he has played for the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs and Baltimore Orioles. He ended the 2005 season with 588 career home runs, placing him fifth on the all-time home run list. After sitting out the 2006 season, Sosa signed with the Rangers in a comeback attempt in early 2007, and he made the team as a designated hitter. While playing for the Rangers on June 20, 2007, against the Cubs, his former team, Sosa hit his 600th home run, becoming the 5th player in professional baseball to achieve that mark. He is also the all-time home run leader among foreign-born Major League Baseball players. After years as a respected power/speed threat with a rocket arm in right field, he emerged during the 1998 as one of baseball's greatest. It was in this season that both Sosa and Mark McGwire passed Roger Maris's single season home run mark of 61 home runs that had stood since 1961. Sosa ended the season with 66, behind McGwire's 70. Sosa won the National League Most Valuable Player Award for leading the Cubs into the playoffs in 1998.