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Samuel Peralta Sosa was born a poor black sharecropper's son in the Dominican Republic.

By BEN WALKER Clarence Eckstein grew up in Ohio, when a great summer day meant driving 2 1/2 hours with his dad to see Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine.At 51, Eckstein still cheers for Cincinnati.

It seemed like a great idea. Everyone in the Cub Kingdom was excited. Alfonso Soriano would be the missing piece to the puzzle.

Albert Pujols says he doesn't want to talk about records. But as the baseball season passes its midway point, the St.

What to do about Chris Davis? Listen to the Rangers' nightly post-game radio show, and the topic is sure to come up.

Chalk up another All-Star who says Major League Baseball should release names of players on the banned substance list.

If you know that Roy Hobbs became "The Natural" swinging a bat named "Wonderboy," you know baseball bats.

This isn't Black Betsy - which is what Shoeless Joe Jackson and Babe Ruth called their black bats - but it's obviously been well-used by the Rangers.

The most famous hip in New York sports history was strong enough last night to support the Yankees.

The New York Times reported last week that former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was on a list of 103 players who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003... Sammy Sosa Is a Joke and Does Not Deserve Hall of Fame by Colin Linneweber 18 reads Opinion The New York Times reported last week that former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa ...

And so now it is clear that baseballa s worst fears are slowly but quite certainly being realized with a steady and relentless drip.

Sammy Sosa ? Take this Yardbarker quiz and see if you can beat the contestants from Tuesday night's episode of FANARCHY on Versus.

Jun 23, 2009 4:23 pm US/Central 1 of 1 Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers hits his 600th career home run against the Chicago Cubs during their inter-league game on June 20, 2007 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.

Maybe the best way to explain Donald Fehr is that he was very good, maybe even too good, at his job.

Big news! The brand new Laurel County Public Library was dedicated - May 2, 2003.

A congressional committee will look into former slugger Sammy Sosa 's denial that he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs in light of a report that he tested positive for one in 2003.

NEW YORK -- Seven-time All-Star outfielder Sammy Sosa reportedly tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003.

In yesterday's New York Times Michael S. Schmidt reported, "Sammy Sosa is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year." Sosa is now the second name to be leaked from that 2003 test of players.

As he said about Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez when they were linked to the use of performance-enhancement drugs, Lance Berkman wasn't surprised when it was reported Tuesday that Sammy Sosa was among the 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancement drugs during Major League Baseball's survey testing in 2003.

Sammy Sosa may have been slamming balls with the aid of performance-enhancers, but Chicago White Sox slugger Paul Konerko wasn't quite ready to believe it.