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How Patrick Kane is gearing up for 1,000th career game
Now in his 14th season, 32-year-old Patrick Kane shares which professional athletes he looks up to upon entering his 1,000 career game in the NHL.
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How Sammy Sosa-Mark McGwire 1998 home run race unfolded in season's final weeks
In 1998, Mark McGwire beat Sammy Sosa in the race to eclipse Roger Maris’ single-season home run record. However, the race was very much in the air down the stretch that September. McGwire hit his 62nd home run on Sept. 8, leaving Sosa four behind with 18 games left on the schedule (the Cubs wound up playing in a Game 163 to clinch a...
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How Sammy Sosa remembers historic 1998 MLB season: ‘We brought baseball back'
Sammy Sosa spent most of the summer of 1998 telling everyone Mark McGwire was “the man.” And when it came to breaking Roger Maris’ single-season home run record and finishing first in the home run race, it was true. But Sosa’s numbers from that season could also earn him that distinction as. His 66 homers were second most in MLB history...
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9 of former Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa's milestone career home runs
Sammy Sosa drilled 609 home runs in 18 big league seasons, 545 of which came in a Cubs uniform from 1992-2004. Sosa not only put his name in Cubs record books but also those of Major League Baseball. Here are nine milestone home runs from Slammin’ Sammy’s big league career. 9 of Sammy Sosa’s career milestone home runs More on…
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7 of Sammy Sosa's milestone 66 home runs with Cubs from 1998
The 1998 season was a momentous campaign for Sammy Sosa. The Cubs slugger smacked a career-high 66 home runs, including 20 in the month of June alone. Although Sosa didn’t win the home run crown that season, he became the fourth player to ever eclipse the 60-mark, following Babe Ruth, Roger Maris and Mark McGwire — who also did in 1998….
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How Sammy Sosa came out of nowhere to jump into 1998 home run race
Sammy Sosa had quite a month in June 1998. And hardly anybody saw it coming. Except maybe Sammy. “In ’96, ’97 I was coming up with some great years,” Sosa told NBC Sports Chicago’s David Kaplan in 2018. “And I know [1998] is going to be the year I’m going to explode.” In 1996, Sosa hit his 40th home run on Aug. 19,…
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How Cubs came to acquire Sammy Sosa from White Sox ahead of 1992 season
To say the Cubs knew exactly what they were getting when they acquired Sammy Sosa in March 1992 would be a stretch. But they might have had an inkling. Larry Himes took over as Cubs general manager in October 1991 following a 77-83 season in which the club fired manager Don Zimmer after 37 games. Among the 1991 team’s stars was George Bell,...
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Why Sammy Sosa-Mark McGwire 1998 home run race was bad for baseball
Baseball’s 1998 home run chase between the Cubs’ Sammy Sosa and Cardinals’ Mark McGwire seemed too good to be true. It was. Entering that season, Major League Baseball was still reeling from the 1994 strike which forced the cancellation of the ’94 World Series. Attendance was down, and baseball, America’s Pastime was on the road to being irrelevant. Enter Sammy and…
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Ever wonder why Wrigley Field's outfield walls are adorned with ivy?
Ever wonder why Wrigley Field’s outfield walls are adorned with ivy? You enter under the marquee at Clark and Addison. As you make your way through the concourse, a sliver of bright blue sky is visible through one of the walkways that lead to the seating area. As you climb the stairs, the green hand-operated scoreboard in center field...
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Cubs fan, NASCAR's Kurt Busch shows off Wrigley Field ‘thinking chairs'
It turns out after going 200 mph for a living, sometimes you just need to sit for a little while. At least that’s what NASCAR’s Kurt Busch likes to do. Thursday on Twitter, Busch, a lifelong Cubs fan, showed off what he calls his “sentimental thinking chairs.” They are a pair of seats from Wrigley Field he has at his house which,...