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

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.

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 was then a rookie for the Texas Rangers.

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 was born in the Dominican Republic.

Although his officially registered birthplace is San Pedro de Macorís, Sosa was actually born in Consuelo.

Sosa was named to his first All-Star team in 1995.

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's performance in the month of June, during which Sosa belted 20 home runs, knocked in 47 runs, and posted an. 842 slugging percentage, was one of the greatest offensive outbursts in major league history.

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.

The year was not all good news for Sosa, however.

On June 3, 2003, Sosa was ejected from a Chicago Cubs-Tampa Bay Devil Rays game in the first inning when umpires discovered he had been using a corked bat.

On June 6, Sosa was suspended for eight games.

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.

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

This was the same contract that Sosa turned down the previous year from the Nationals.

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

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.

The home run was the first one that Sosa had recorded against the Cubs, and as a result he has hit a home run against every active MLB team.

Sosa said that he had been keeping in shape at his home, and was hoping that after a strong World Baseball Classic he would prove to major-league teams that he was still capable of playing in the MLB.

Sosa has long been the subject of speculation about suspected anabolic steroid use during his playing career.

After the game, when asked about the play, Chicago Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa dubbed him " Spider-Man ".

As noted by Mercedes Sosa, with regard to " Gracias a la Vida ", Parra's music was, though about " simple things ", always " prophetic and true ".

After returning to Florida, Tony is berated by Frank, who is angry about what happened to Omar, as well as Tony's new setup with Sosa.

The death of the New Governor, a change of position decided in Spain, Lope de Sosa, in 1520 before even landing and taking possession, the expeditions with military garrisons after from Panamá and Nata, to reduce the " disorders " promoted by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, a. k. a. Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, the diversion from New Governor of Castilla del Oro since 1526, now, more or less Panamá, Pedro de los Ríos, getting a nomination for himself as a new Governor of Nicaragua in 1527 tell us about the utmost energy of this Spanish " converso " family background man, already approaching his nineties.

Philosophers in moral theory and rhetoric had taken defeasibility largely for granted when American epistemologists rediscovered Wittgenstein's thinking on the subject: John Ladd, Roderick Chisholm, Roderick Firth, Ernest Sosa, Robert Nozick, and John L. Pollock all began writing with new conviction about how appearance as red was only a defeasible reason for believing something to be red.

Sosa is the Cubs'all-time home run leader, having hit 545 with that team.

Sosa has two criteria for having a belief to be warranted, or in his words, " fully apt.

After Fidel Castro came to power on February 16, 1959, Sosa was arrested and charged with having committed 108 murders for Batista.

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.

As a result of his hot start, when the time came for Hernandez to come off the disabled list, the Mets chose to keep Sosa with the team and have him replace struggling rookie Mike Pelfrey in the starting rotation on a permanent basis.

On July 17, Sosa returned from the DL to pitch well in a start against the San Diego Padres, giving up only 2 runs in 6 innings pitched.

In 2002, Reilly responded to Sammy Sosa's assertion that he would " take a drug test if someone offered it to him " by spontaneously offering him a chance to drive to a local lab and take a drug test after a game ; Sosa reacted by yelling and threatening him.

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.

Sosa started the 1991 season by hitting 2 home runs and driving in 5 runs.

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.

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

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.

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.