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Cuando se criaba en San Antonio, TX, hijo de inmigrantes mejicanos, el destino de Lionel Sosa era aprender un oficio, deferir a los anglos y votar por los dem?cratas. Pero a los 13 a?os qued? tan impresionado por el discurso televisado de Dwight Eisenhower sobre el Sue?o Americano durante la Convenci?n Nacional Republicana, que decidi? entonces ser un empresario rico y afiliarse al partido republicano...
...print without proof). I thought the Congressional hearings were just showboating as they loomed, but then found myself riveted by them when they finally happened. All that long, long day. I sat, entranced, as by a 1-1 game. I still can't believe the legislators didn't press Sosa further about that carefully worded opening statement put together by lawyers. He probably spoke truth, that he didn't take things that were banned by baseball, but that's because baseball wasn't banning things back then. What did he take, if anything? The suspicion continues to hang above them...
...cast McGwire as a lying cheat is grotesque. He has raised a lot of money for worthy causes, and his 1998 race with Sammy Sosa to break Roger Maris' single-season home-run record saved the sport of baseball. Whatever the outcome of the House committee hearings, McGwire will always be a hero...
...testimony given last Thursday on steroids in Major League Baseball, accusations of cheating and betraying the popular trust are being continuously flung at a handful of muscled targets. The iconic figures of the sport’s recent post-strike resurgence—McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa, among others—have fallen under the shadow of a suspicion that threatens to destroy their reputations and place a more permanent and shameful asterisk than the one that was applied to Maris’ 61 next to the bloated offensive records of the last 10 years...
McGwire took a deep breath. "If a player answers no, he simply will not be believed," he said about the anticipated questions of his own steroid use. "If he answers yes, he risks public scorn and endless government investigations." So unlike fellow players on the panel, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, who flatly denied taking steroids, and Jose Canseco, an admitted abuser, McGwire essentially took the Fifth. Mighty McGwire, the man whose eclipse of Roger Maris' home-run record galvanized a nation and who became this magazine's 1998 Hero of the Year, tried to draw a walk rather than...