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The baseball slugger and right fielder Samuel "Sammy" Peralta Sosa grew up in the baseball hotbed of San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. After dropping his dreams of being a boxer, Sosa developed his youthful baseball skills on the edge of poverty, shining shoes and playing with makeshift equipment on unkempt fields.

He made his major-league debut with the Texas Rangers in 1989, finished that season and two more with the Chicago White Sox, then was traded across town to the Chicago Cubs, where he set records and achieved celebrity status.

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In 1998 he won the National League Most Valuable Player Award and, with St. Louis Cardinal Mark McGwire, shared the Sports Illustrated Sportsmen of the Year award. His friendly competitions with McGwire for the most home runs caught national attention in 1998 and 1999.

In those two years and in 2001, Sosa was the only player ever to hit sixty or more homers in three seasons. Though his strikeout totals remained high in