The contract included an invitation to spring training, where Sosa competed for a spot in the lineup with Nelson Cruz, Jason Botts, and other rookies / prospects.

Sosa was successful during spring training and was added to the team's 25-man roster.

Sammy Sosa was the captain of the Chicago Cubs during his tenure with the team.

Sosa caught fire in June, hitting a major league record 20 home runs in the month, and his home run race with Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire transformed the pair into international superstars in a matter of weeks.

Sosa had perhaps his finest season and Jon Lieber led the staff with a 20 win season.

In 2003, he was part of an advertising campaign for Armour hot dogs with MLB players Ken Griffey, Jr., Derek Jeter, and Sammy Sosa.

Sosa played with four Major League Baseball teams over his career which spanned from 1989 – 2007.

After three seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Sosa became a member of the Chicago Cubs in 1992 and subsequently became one of the league's best hitters.

Sosa finished his career with brief stints with the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers.

Sosa made his major league debut on June 16, 1989, with the Texas Rangers, and he hit first career home run off Roger Clemens.

In 1990, Sosa batted. 233 with 15 home runs, 70 runs batted in, 10 triples, and 32 stolen bases.

Sosa batted. 260 with 8 home runs and 25 RBIs in his first season with the Cubs.

In 1992, Sosa batted. 261 with 33 home runs with 93 RBIs.

Sosa continued his success with the Cubs in 1996 as he batted. 273 with 40 home runs and 100 RBIs.

Despite hitting 36 home runs with 119 RBIs, Sosa batted just. 251.

Sosa ended the season with 66 ( still a team record ), behind McGwire's 70.

Sosa wore the iconic # 21 with the Cubs in honor of his childhood idol Roberto Clemente Also in 1998, Sosa's 416 total bases were the most in a single season since Stan Musial's 429 in.

Sosa was honored with a ticker-tape parade in his honor in New York City, and he was invited to be a guest at US President Bill Clinton's 1999 State of the Union Address.

Sosa once again led the league in home runs with 49 in.

Sammy Sosa had three 60 + home run seasons with the Cubs (' 98, ' 99, & ' 01 )

Sosa finished the season with 40 home runs, and he hit two more in the 2003 NLCS against the Florida Marlins, but overall, the Cubs lost the series in seven games.

In May, Sosa suffered an odd injury while sitting next to his locker chatting with reporters before a game in San Diego's PETCO Park.

On January 28, 2005, the Cubs traded Sosa to the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for infielder / outfielder Jerry Hairston, Jr., infielder Mike Fontenot, and RHP Dave Crouthers.

By playing for the 2005 Orioles alongside fellow 500-home-run batter Rafael Palmeiro, Sosa and Palmeiro became the first 500 home run club members in history to play together on the same team after reaching the 500 home run plateau.

* Jerry Hairston, Jr., second baseman and outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers ; first third-generation African-American major-leaguer ; one of three players traded by the Orioles for Sammy Sosa

Prior to the 2005 season, Hairston was traded to the Chicago Cubs ( along with Oriole prospects Mike Fontenot and David Crouthers ) for Sammy Sosa, thereby cementing Roberts's position as the Orioles ' starting second baseman.

Lee showed early on that he could more than compensate for the loss, and while Sosa had a disappointing 2005 season with the Baltimore Orioles, Lee had a career year.

Under the deal, Sosa earned $ 17, 875, 000 for the 2005 season, with the Cubs paying $ 7 million of his salary.

Sosa finished the 2005 season batting. 221 with 14 home runs, his worst performance since 1992, and continuing his post-2001 trend of declines in batting average, homers, total bases, and RBI.

Sosa did not make the original edition, but for the 2005 update, with his career totals considerably higher, he was ranked at Number 95.

Previously, Sosa sat alongside Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire at a 2005 hearing before Congress.

The theatre's final performance before its closure for refurbishment works in 2005 was a concert on November 1 starring folklore singer Mercedes Sosa in performance with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pedro Ignacio Calderón.

Mercedes Sosa in 2005, with Argentina's then-First Lady ( now president ), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

As a result, she has created some remarkable collaborations with other artists and international musicians, including Joan Baez in an anti-war concert that took place in Tel Aviv in 1988 ; Mercedes Sosa ; Oliver Shante, Germany ; Stadio, Italy ; the Greek singer Glykeria ; Noa ; Anwar Ebrahem from Tunisia, Enzo Avetable of Italy ; Nani Cayemi in Brazil ; Robert Wyatt in the UK and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ( UK ) in 2005, and many others.

The Cubs had traded superstar Sammy Sosa, who had previously been one of their best hitters, before the 2005 season.

Sosa enjoyed a breakout season with the Braves in 2005.

During his strong 2005 season, Sosa earned a reputation for his extraordinary ability to get out of jams he created for himself, as opposing batters hit just. 194 with runners in scoring position, and. 063 with the bases loaded.

But the magic that made Sosa so successful in 2005 ran out, as he stumbled to a 2-9 start, while being doomed by an inordinate number of home runs.

* Hajek, A. and Hartmann, S. ( 2010 ): " Bayesian Epistemology ", in: Dancy, J., Sosa, E., Steup, M.

After the retirement of Sandberg and the trade of Dunston, the Cubs had holes to fill and the signing of Henry Rodriguez, known affectionately at " H-Rod " to bat cleanup provided protection for Sammy Sosa in the lineup, as Rodriguez slugged 31 round-trippers in his first season in Chicago.

The Cubs were swamped by media attention in 1998, and the team's two biggest headliners were Sosa and rookie flamethrower Kerry Wood.

On a positive note, the home run chase between Sosa, McGwire and Ken Griffey, Jr. helped professional baseball to bring in a new crop of fans as well as bringing back some fans who had been disillusioned by the 1994 strike.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

In recent times, some epistemologists ( Sosa, Greco, Kvanvig, Zagzebski ) have argued that epistemology should evaluate people's properties ( i. e., intellectual virtues ) and not just the properties of propositions or propositional mental attitudes.

Sammy Sosa tied Greenberg's mark in 1998.

He matched what was then the single-season home run record by a right-handed batter, ( Jimmy Foxx, 1932 ); the mark would stand for 66 years until it was broken by Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.

* Sosa, Ernest ( 1991 ) " Reliabilism and Intellectual Virtue ," in E. Sosa, Knowledge In Perspective, Cambridge Press, pp. 131 – 145.

* 2010 – The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

* 1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer and activist ( d. 2009 )

On August 15, Thome hit 599th and 600th homerun at Comerica Park to become the eighth player in Major League history to hit 600 homeruns, joining Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez.

In the aftermath, a second lieutenant ( Ricardo Massaferro ), a sergeant ( Víctor Sanabria ) and ten soldiers ( Antonio Arrieta, Heriberto Ávalos, José Coronel, Dante Salvatierra, Ismael Sánchez, Tomás Sánchez, Edmundo Sosa, Marcelino Torantes, Alberto Villalba and Hermindo Luna ) were killed and several wounded ; the Montoneros lost 16 men in the fighting and mop-up operations that night.