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...been a tough year to be Sammy Sosa.?The ebullient home run king has hit only six balls out of the park this year. His right big toe swelled up to twice the size of his left toe, and he had to endure a painful removal of the nail. In April, a pitch by the Pittsburgh Pirates? Salomon Torres shattered Sosa's batting helmet with Sammy still...
...then there was that thing about the corked bat. Following last Tuesday's discovery that Sosa was using an illegal bat in a game against Tampa Bay, the denunciations extended all the way to his home country of the Dominican Republic.? "We can't forgive him. He smears all Dominicans with what he did," 16-year-old Rolfi Lajana Santana, of Sosa's hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, told the Orlando Sentinel.? Ouch.? Sosa says the whole thing was an accident, that he used a practice bat in a game. Seattle Mariners third baseman Jeff Cirillo (who, it must...
...Number of career home runs reached by Dominican-born Sammy Sosa with his homer in Cincinnati on April...
...FANS' TOP 10 MOMENTS 10. Ryan's 7th no-hitter 9. DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak 7. Ted Williams hits .406 6. Rose passes Cobb for hits 5. Gehrig's farewell speech 4. McGwire and Sosa chase Maris 3. Robinson breaks color barrier 2. Aaron passes Ruth for HRs 1. Ripken becomes Iron...
...treated accordingly. Three days before spring training, long after other franchises had organized their teams for the season, Selig finally hired Tavares, general manager Omar Minaya and manager Frank Robinson. Minaya, 42, who signed Sammy Sosa to his first professional contract, is young for the job, full of energy and plans to turn his Expos stint into another G.M. opportunity down the road. Robinson, a Hall of Famer, must truly love the game. He certainly has the players' respect, but hasn't made much headway with Montreal's native language. Robinson wished one of the team's Francophone beat writers...