What a thrill it was to watch Sammy Sosa pound the baseball into the Wrigley Field bleachers and sometimes into the stratosphere.
The Slammin’ Sammy show got even more exciting when the then-Chicago Cubs right fielder and St. Louis Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire traded long balls during the great 1998 home run chase. That year, both men ended up beating New York Yankee Roger Maris’ 37-year-old record of 61 homers in a season.
