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06-21-2007, 03:50 PM
Slammin' Sammy Sosa has added to what has already been a glorious Major League career and what could be his winning ticket into the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame. Sammy, who had been in a homerun slump, hit a 1-2 pitch into centerfield of Arlington Stadium last night to give the Dominican slugger his 600th career homerun. What added to the excitement of his 600th homerun was the fact that Sosa hit it against his former team, the Chicago Cubs, with whom he hit 545 total homeruns. Sosa, who was out of baseball at this very time last year and who is in the midst of a career revival, joins an exclusive circle of baseball greats. Sammy has joined the 600 HR club of Hank Aaron (755), Barry Bonds (748), Babe Ruth (714) and Willy Mays (660). Chants of "Sam-my Sam-my!" rang through the ballpark at Arlington and Sosa was happy to give a curtain call. Sosa has been an important figure in baseball since the mid 1990s. Sosa's homerun chase with slugger Mark McGwire in 1998 is credited with bringing baseball back after a nasty strike threatened the popularity of the US national pastime. Sosa hit 66 homeruns in that same year and went on to hit 60 or more homeruns in two more seasons, the first ever player to achieve this.
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