Sosa joins elite club with 600th homer
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Sammy Sosa's 600th homer resembled so many that came before &#151; except this time the Chicago Cubs were on the other side. Playing for the Texas Rangers after a year out of baseball, Sosa became the fifth member of the 600-homer club Wednesday night when he connected against his former team.
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Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run Thursday, routinely putting his head down as he rounded the bases while joining one of baseball's most elite clubs.
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Sammy Sosa has a contract with the Texas Rangers and a chance to get back to the major leagues. Now the former slugger has to go to spring training and earn a spot on the roster.
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The fans in San Francisco went wild when Barry Bonds hit No. 750 on Friday night. In Houston, Mark Loretta's teammates swarmed the plate for a second straight night after he hit No. 69.
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The fan who retrieved Barry Bonds' 700th home run attended the same private Catholic high school as the slugger &#151; Serra High in nearby San Mateo.
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What was once as unthinkable in Chicago as Michael Jordan playing for someone other than the Bulls is about to happen, this time with Sammy Sosa, whose prolific home runs, celebratory hops out of the batter's box, and daily salutes to the fans at the end of his sprints out to right field in Wrigley Field made him a rival ...
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Sammy Sosa arrived for spring training with the Texas Rangers early Friday morning, appearing to be in good shape and good spirits after a season out of the game.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run Thursday, routinely putting his head down as he rounded the bases while joining one of baseball's most elite clubs.
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Sammy Sosa has fired back at comments made by manager Dusty Baker prior to Sunday&#39;s season ending win over the Atlanta Braves.
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With one grand stroke, Sammy Sosa took another little hop toward history. Sosa hit his 599th homer Friday night, a game-turning grand slam that sent the Texas Rangers to a 7-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds and left Slammin' Sammy looking for much more.
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Barry Bonds becomes only the third baseball player to hit 700 home runs.
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Tapping his heart and thrusting both thumbs upward, Sammy Sosa stepped to the podium and flashed the broad smile that Chicago Cubs fans know too well.
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Jorge Sosa didn't know &#151; or care &#151; that the Detroit Tigers had not been shut out this year. "I didn't think about, I just tried to do my pitches," the 30-year-old journeyman from the Dominican Republic said through an interpreter, after holding the Tigers at bay over eight innings in the New York Mets' 3-0 win Friday night.
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It was no ordinary baseball, but the baseball that Barry Bonds hit over the left-field fence last month at SBC Park in San Francisco for his 700th career homer and promptly was put on the online auction block.
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After signing the largest contract -- eight years, $136 million -- in baseball's wild winter spending spree , former Nationals outfielder Alfonso Soriano reports to his new team - the Chicago Cubs - with none of the drama that accompanied his arrival to the Nationals a year ago.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Baseballer Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run today when drilling a pitch from Jake Peavy into the left field seats in the third inning against the San Diego Padres.
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CHICAGO (Sports Network) - Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa  has reportedly been fined $87,400, equal to his salary for one  game, by the team for his decision to leave Sunday's season  finale early.