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Director of Production: Susan M. McKinney Cover design: Julie Denzer Photo insert design: Michelle R. Dressen
ISBN: 1-58261-024-x Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-89109
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. 804 N. Neil Champaign, IL 61820 www.SportsPublishingInc.com
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Contents
Acknowledgments
v
Preface
vii
Prologue
xiii
1 Pride of a Nation
1
2 Sammy Starts Down the Long Baseball Road
11
3 Larry Himes'Two BestTradesFor Sammy Sosa
19
4 Ups and Downs on the White Sox
27
5 Sammy Finds a Baseball Home
35
6 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
55
7 Sammy's Ship Comes in on Payday
79
8 Class in Session with Jeff Pentland
85
9 An RBI Champ Needs Support On and Off the Held
97
10 A Quiet Start to a Great Season
113
11 The Kerry and Sammy Show
119
12 June 1998 and Record-Busting
125
13 Guardian Angel of Sammy and the Cubs?
133
14 Blessings From the Hall of Famers
137
15 The Home Run Race
143
16 Sammy Showbiz and Media-Relations Mastery
157
17 A Story Angle and a Spokesman
171
18 59 and Beyond:A Wild, Wild, Wild-Card Finish
179
19 A Case for the MVP
199
20 1998's Extra Innings
203
Epilogue
213
Appendices
217
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Acknowledgments
The list of helpful folks in putting a book out on a tight deadline is too long to mention here. But I'll try.
Appreciation must go to the Chicago Cubs media relations department, whose cooperation and liberal access has always been a given, but never was more vital than in the conducting of interviews and gathering of information here. The media relations folks were under the gun due to the dual pressures of the home-run chase and the wild-card race, and they were helpful as usual. Further thanks must go to the Cubs' media-relations colleagues with the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers for their assistance.
Once in the ballpark, the time taken by Cubs players, field personnel and front-office executives in talking about Sammy Sosa was crucial. I'm indebted to manager Jim Riggleman, team president Andy MacPhail and general manager Ed Lynch for taking blocks of time out of their heavy schedules for one-on-one interviews. And many, many thanks to hitting coach Jeff Pentland, who kept going back and forth to the visitors' dugout in Milwaukee County Stadium to try to find me. We found each other, all right, and Pentland's wisdom comprises an entire chapter here.
Another big assist goes to the numbers-crunchers at STATS, Inc. and Total Sports for providing the statistical insight about Sammy Sosa's clutch-hitting abilities, past and present. A bonus was thrown in by Total Sports' Stu Shea's constant encouragement and emergency computer assistance.
More help with the newfangled world of cyberspace was provided by the ladies of the household, Laura and Nina Castle, who clicked the mouse and keyboard when I suffered brain cramps and computer fright. They also should be praised for allowing me to mess up part of the house with notes, newspapers, magazines and whatever else I used in the production of this book.
We would not have brought you this book promptly after the 1998 season without the transcription help of Barbara
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