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This Week in Sports History: The birth of Cubs’ legend Sammy Sosa
Chicago Cubs’ legend Sammy Sosa.
Photo by Jerry Coli
This column seeks to profile important events in the history of sports.
As baseball fans are painfully aware, the Chicago Cubs do not have too many seasons in their long history to be proud of. Their World Series win in 2016 was their first since 1907 — a record championship drought that will probably outlast the sport of baseball itself. Such a history allows the fans to appreciate the smaller victories, though, as the Cubs happily did with right fielder Sammy Sosa.
On Wednesday of this week in 1968, Samuel Peralta Sosa was born in the Dominican Republic, in a small community that had no title. It was so small, in fact, that its only defining characteristic was its status as a batey, a settlement built around a sugar mill. Sosa’s early life was an impoverished one. His situation was worsened by his father’s death, and it forced him to beg
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Sammy Sosa
When asked the question of who my hero really is, I had to think long and hard. Once I finally determined that my childhood hero Sammy Sosa was indeed my hero, it provoked many thoughts of what my true definition of hero really was. To me a hero is someone who makes others better, has tremendous success in their profession, and overcomes extreme adversity during some part of their life. Therefore, Sammy Sosa exemplifies the term hero because he has made teammates even more successful than their ability would allow for, is nearing in on the tremendous milestone of 600 career home runs, and has overcome a childhood filled with poverty.
Living in a family of die-hard Cubs fans definitely helped me get acquainted with Sammy Sosa at a young age. In my family not having a Cubs game on television was like a high school student having a homework free evening. While watching and attending many Cubs games, Slammin' Sammy always caught my eye. Sammy's enthusiastic sprint ou
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Sammy Sosa's “Bunny Hop” and the 25 Best Player Trademarks in MLB History
The sport of baseball certainly has its share of oddities and peculiarities. For instance, it is the only professional major idrott which doesn’t have a clearly defined playing field—each individual etapp is completely different in its outfield dimensions. There is no defined time, as one game can be as short as 90 minutes, while another can be well over four hours (excluding ytterligare innings).
Its uniqueness is what sets it apart from other sports. However, even more unique are the unusual idiosyncrasies that many ballplayers bring to the game. While some of them are actual superstitions, many others are just forms of habits or mannerisms developed by players over the course of time.
Dictionary.com defines idiosyncrasy as “a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that fryst vatten peculiar to an individual.” However it is explained, many players in Major League Baseball have been