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Sosa and started
He started 1993 in a center field platoon with Dwight Smith, later splitting time with Sammy Sosa when the latter wasn't playing in right field.
Sosa started the 2007 season with yet another one-year contract, this time for $ 1. 25 million and as a member of the New York Mets, and playing for the Mets ' Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans.

Sosa and 1991
Externalists have offered a variety of responses but there is no consensus among epistemologists as to whether these replies are successful ( Cohen, 1984 ; Sosa, 1991 ).
* Sosa, Ernest ( 1991 ) " Reliabilism and Intellectual Virtue ," in E. Sosa, Knowledge In Perspective, Cambridge Press, pp. 131 – 145.

Sosa and season
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.
Sosa had perhaps his finest season and Jon Lieber led the staff with a 20 win season.
Furthermore, Sosa is one of only two National League players to ever reach 160 RBIs in a season, a milestone he reached in 2001.
Sosa is the only player to have hit 60 or more home runs in a single season three times.
Sosa batted. 260 with 8 home runs and 25 RBIs in his first season with the Cubs.
It was in this season that both Sosa and Mark McGwire were involved in the " home run record chase ", when both players ' prowess for hitting home runs drew national attention as they attempted to pass Roger Maris ' single season home run mark of 61 home runs that had stood since.
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.
In the season, Sosa hit 63 home runs, again trailing Mark McGwire who hit 65.
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.
According to the New York Times of June 16, 2009, Sosa had also tested positive for steroids at some point during the season.
Sosa requested to sit out the last game of the season, which was at home against the Atlanta Braves, and he left Wrigley Field early in the game.
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 became only the fifth man in history, following Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Barry Bonds, to hit 600 regular season home runs.
On May 28,, Sosa announced that he instructed his agent not to offer his services to any Major League team for the 2008 season, and planned on filing for retirement, but never did.
In 1998, Henderson and Valenzuela were gone, but newly acquired ( from the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ) pitcher Kevin Brown had a sensational year ( his only one with the Padres ) and outfielder / slugger Greg Vaughn bounced back after a poor 1997 season and hit 50 home runs ( overlooked in that season of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race ).
Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa dedicated each of his 66 home runs that season to Caray.
His accomplishment of 61 home runs in a season, which was greatly debated in its own time, came back to the forefront in 1998, when the record was broken by both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Kevin Brown's tenure with the Padres during the 1998 season was somewhat marred when the San Diego fans chose to cheer slugger Sammy Sosa during his home run chase along with Mark McGwire.
) 56 home runs stood as the NL record until the 1998 season, when it was broken by Sammy Sosa ( 66 ) and Mark McGwire ( 70 ).

Sosa and by
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.
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 won the National League Most Valuable Player Award for leading the Cubs into the playoffs in 1998, earning every first-place vote except for the two cast by St. Louis writers, who voted for McGwire.
In recognition of his accomplishments as a hitter, Sosa won the Silver Slugger award ( an award for offensive output, voted on by managers and coaches ) in and in 1998 through 2002.
At the same time, the Chicago Cubs awarded Sosa's # 21 to new pitcher Jason Marquis, despite the fact that it was formerly worn by Sosa, who coincidentally later hit his 600th home run against Marquis.
On April 26, 2007, Sosa made history by hitting a home run in his 45th major league ballpark.
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.
He won the AL Silver Slugger award, but his comeback was missed by most fans because of the home run race in the National League between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Canseco was at one time the all-time leader in home runs among Latino players ; he was later surpassed by Manny Ramirez, Carlos Delgado, Rafael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, and Sammy Sosa.
Once in Acapulco, she was sold to a Puebla merchant by the name of Miguel de Sosa.
* Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa each chase the home run record set previously by Roger Maris in 1961.
He opened 2000 with a 12 round decision over Victoriano Sosa to retain the title, and subsequently defended his title again by knockout over Mike Griffith in round 11, and beat Billy Irwin in a 12 round decision to close the year.
* 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
Calle Francisco Sosa alone has 65 structures catalogued by INAH for their historic value.
Many of the old villages are linked by the old Calle Real, which was renamed Santa Catarina, then Benito Juarez and now Francisco Sosa.
Many of the old villages, now called colonias, pueblos and barrios ( roughly “ neighborhood ”) are linked by the old Calle Real, which was renamed Santa Catarina, then Benito Juarez and now Francisco Sosa.
Many of the old villages were linked by a trolley on Santa Catarina Road, now Francisco Sosa.
In the 1920s, areas of the borough became a magnet for artists and intellectuals after being promoted by Francisco Sosa.
Her most renowned song, Gracias a la Vida ( Thanks to Life ), was popularized throughout Latin America by Mercedes Sosa and later in the US by Joan Baez.
As noted by Mercedes Sosa, with regard to " Gracias a la Vida ", Parra's music was, though about " simple things ", always " prophetic and true ".

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