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Podcast: The Brian D. O'Leary Show
Episode: Ep 004 Sportlanders. Looking back at the McGwire/Sosa HR race in 1998.
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Eastern Stars by Mark Kurlansky
Essentially, a history of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, using the Dominican Winter League team, the Eastern Stars (in English) as the catalyst for the story. San Pedro de Macoris is known also as the cradle of shortstops. Highly recommended reading.
Sammy Sosa's transformation: A bleaching cream? Who knows…
Baltimore Sun article on Sosa's transformation.
A tweet showing Sammy then and now.
Neymar, the Brazilian soccer player who appears to have done the Sosa/Michael Jackson tr...