Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Puerto Rico wasn't hit as badly as the Dominican Republic, where the storm last week killed 125 people, the region around Maldonado's home was decimated...
...scream at him in the dugout on live television. His obsession with individual accomplishment led him to commission a giant "30-30" pendant necklace to celebrate his 30 homers and 30 stolen bases. His license plate read ss 30-30. He named his shopping mall in the Dominican Republic 30-30. If he could have, he would have named each of his four children 30-30. Cubs fans, who called him "Sammy So-So," were disgusted when the team re-signed him for $42.5 million for four years...
...also got a lot to remember when you're responsible for a whole country. Sosa shined shoes as a kid to help pay for the two-room apartment he lived in with his widowed mom and six siblings in the Dominican Republic. When a major league representative saw him play, he thought Sosa was amazingly talented and a little malnourished. But since he became a professional ballplayer nine years ago, he has funneled money south. He has lavished three houses on his mother, bought businesses for his sisters, sent computers to schools, donated ambulances to hospitals, handed out so many...
...Sosa is different now. When asked about his 30-30 medallion, he laughs with embarrassment, saying it has been retired to a drawer in the Dominican Republic. "Oh, it was big," he says, using his large hands to illustrate an ostentatious circle. "Sometimes you do some things, and it's just a situation. And after a while you think, 'Wow, I shouldn't have done that.'" Now, he deflects compliments by calling McGwire--and just about everybody else...
...Sosa smiled through it, pshawing any accusations of America's racism and enjoying the Chicago fans' McGwire-worthy celebration. Maybe that's because he knows that the celebration in the Dominican Republic when he returns after his season ends will make the scene in St. Louis look like an Amish wedding. Maybe it's because he knows a burst of fame isn't worth worrying about when immortality is on the line. Or maybe it's just because Sosa is such a nice guy. Either way, when he hit 61 and 62, Chicago fans threw him a little party, Dominicans...