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Former Major League Baseball player Sammy Sosa insists he's not trying to turn into Michael Jackson, but does say he's undergoing skin bleaching. Photos of Sosa looking pasty appeared recently and...

Sammy Sosa, who just a couple weeks ago reiterated that he has never taken performance-enhancing drugs, reportedly tested positive for them in 2003. If true, Sosa, who once cheated with an illegal...

World No. 1 Dinara Safina will play Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French Open final. St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing Twitter over a fake page using his name that he claims damaged...

A Park Too Far: We all want more homers, but why?

(Sosa in a White Sox jersey. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Daniel, Getty Images) 7/29/1989 - Rangers deal Sosa for Baines The Texas Rangers deal utility infielder Scott Fletcher and minor league...

(The home plate umpires inspect Sammy Sosa's corked bat) 6/03/1888 - Casey at the Bat The San Francisco Examiner publishes a poem written by Ernest Thayer titled "Casey at the Bat." The famous...

4/04/2003 - Sosa joins 500 clubSammy Sosa waited a long time to hit his 500th home run. He ended the 2002 season with 499 homers and waited 187 days to knock #500, which he did on the road against...

1/28/2005 - Sosa traded to the Orioles After 13 years with the Chicago Cubs, Sammy Sosa is traded to the Baltimore Orioles for Jerry Hairston Jr. and a pair of minor leaguers. For most of his time...