Talk:Sammy Sosa

message: New info on Sosa was added, regarding his 40 man roster add to the Rangers.  It all looks and sounds good, but I believe the batting average is wrong.  i read it to be .452 here: 
My source may be wrong, we should clear it up, though, if it is not.
*In that same article Rangers GM pretty much garauntees Sosa will start on opening day.  That may be worthy of mention.
Also, his career revival with the Rangers may be worthy as its own section under, possibly "2007, with the Rangers" or something like that.  Right now it's under 06-07 off-season, which is also accurate.  Does anyone care? (Mythos721 17:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I modified this entry to reflect the 2007 portion as such, dividing the "2006, and beyond" into one titled 2006, and one called 2007.  However, there is still the matter of his actual batting average, or maybe it doesn't matter, since it will change. (Mythos721 18:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2007

message: where did sammy go to school and college? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.148.204.185 (talk)
:Sosa didn't go to college.  He grew up in poverty in the Dominican Republic, and was signed at the age of 16.  Jpers36 22:28, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps someone should add that he didn't go to college. I would do it myself but I'm hardly an authority on Sammy Sosa, just a casual fan. --J.a.f.a.c. 05:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: School

message: I think something about his trademark hop should be included.  --Chitomcgee 03:17, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hop

message: What does the Baninter scandal have to do with Sosa?  It's unclear why it's linked to at the bottom.  --jdickert 12:29, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone managed to slip it back in again. I've removed it again. -- Rogerborg 16:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone out there doesn't know the difference between BALCO and Banco.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.116.211.3 (talk) 22:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Baninter

message: This article needs some serious grammatical clean-up. I'd do it but the page is semi-protected.216.146.94.235 15:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because so many IP's keep changing "Sammy" to "Corkey"...which is not at all funny. 阿修羅96 16:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up

message: A couple of days ago, I did some copy editing or "clean-up" of the article.  If you think anything was changed that should not have been, let me know here.
Thanks.
Justus R 21:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy Editing 

message: Since I do not know how the cited source goes with editing but... Sammy is only 21 HR's away from breaking Aarons HR record... MLB.com 67.168.132.134 05:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  HR score 

message: Shouldn't this be mentioned somewhere? Socby19 (talk) 22:08, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This still hasn't been addressed. Socby19 (talk) 20:18, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So what's stopping you from researching it? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 22:16, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I do see it as an important potential part of the article. However, I don't see myself as the best person to edit it as such. Wikipedia is meant as a community where people help with and/or take other's suggestions.Socby19 (talk) 06:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congressional steroid committee 

message: First off I don't know why this is listed.... second off... since he's presumably retiring, can't we make this humongous table a 2-column table?  It isn't very wide. Bohsocks (talk) 01:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of home runs 

message: Administrators: Please read article and note that someone has tampered with the text of this article in several places.  I tried to report "vandalism" but couldn't follow the complicated directions to do so.Apace361 (talk) 17:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like someone's working on fixing the IP address vandalisms. Did they catch everything? Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 19:22, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I went throught the history and reverted a bunch of edits since April 17. I'm pretty sure I was careful to remove only vandalism, but feel free to double check. -Phoenixrod (talk) 19:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If a single IP or other vandal has been messing with things and intervening editors fail to observe it, what I usually do is revert to the point just before the vandal got started, then compare the results to see if any legitimate edits got rubbed out, and add them back in as needed. That's a more efficient way to do it. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 19:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism of article 

message: the golfer Sam Snead had this nickname long before. I will make a disamb page with both on there instead of just having Slammin Sammy redirect here.  Machete97 (talk) 14:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly. That's where Sosa's nickname would have come from anyway. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Slammin Sammy 

message: In the 1998 row of his statistics box there is an asterisk next to the year, but there it doesn't appear to be referring to anything  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.206.149.78 (talk) 19:19, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thx for removing it :)  I'm not wiki-savvy :) 68.206.149.78 (talk) 02:59, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asterisk 

message: Famous baseball player Sammy Sosa of haitian descent 
Famous baseball player Sammy Sosa is of haitian parents born in Dominican Republic. This is what  the National Commission of Human Rights  has revealed. Maybe you guys knew about it before but i never did.  Haitian father and haitian mother. article is in Spanish ...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bana2166 (talk • contribs) 20:31, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right . I found my own source (says father only and a number of other players of Haitian descent by an acclaimed Dominican journalist which states that about 40% of players are of Haitian descent ) and wanted to include a section; wanted to check the talk page first to see if there was anything on the matter and I found your comment. I believe your link is now broken but I found the same name of the article here on another publisher's website:  Cheers! Savvyjack23 (talk) 00:46, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sammy Sosa of Haitian descent  

message: He's certainly changed a lot in appearance. Perhaps a "new" photo should be added to the article to reflect that, if one could be found that would satisfly GFDL.
Stonemason89 (talk) 17:40, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I'm not going to hold my breath for that to happen.  All of this stuff is based on like one photo.  For all we know, the photo was doctored too.  Wknight94 talk 18:05, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

text: Those images are in fact real and authentic. According to an article from Yahoo! Sports], the discoloration was caused by some skin treatment cream Sosa has been using. --  StarScream1007  ►Talk   05:38, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

text: As significant than the 1998 home run race with Mark McGwire, the 2003 corked bat incident, or his silence before Congress in 2005?  Certainly you jest.  It's already a non-issue in the home country of baseball.  It's gossip and speculation - and if we include a section on Sammy Sosa's skin color, that will encourage others to drop by and offer their opinions on the matter as well.  If Wikipedia strives to be a serious source of information, and THE ultimate destination for the digital legacies of famous people, then the editors have to be really careful to what's included and excluded.  My 2 cents, for what it's worth.  Terry Foote (talk) 12:43, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, that would be ideal for the legacy, I suppose, but the rest of the world that is trying to gather information will be hindered by this very well-known event being left out. Debollweevil (talk) 06:41, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

text: Love how this was reverted "per talk page"  when you had one user amongst other opinions who said that it should be removed. Meanwhile the user who says it should be removed calls it "gossip and speculation", while the content removed was backed with a reliable source with quotes from the subject (though the user posted their opinion before this was added) --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 17:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Vitiligo and Sosa is a dead issue - if it weren't, the "reliable sources" would still be writing about it:
http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&source=hp&q=sammy+sosa+vitiligo&cf=all&as_qdr=m&as_drrb=q
All best, the one user who says it should be removed. Terry Foote (talk) 01:23, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

text: I realize the subject header here says Vitiligo but I believe to understand my argument  it would be best to take a look at the diff link I gave. Thanks. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 01:40, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Terry Foote, the content you just added is not backed up by any of the citations currently there. Right now, it looks like original research. Diff-  --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 17:12, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely unbelievable.  I don't even think this should be in the article in the first place, then as a gesture of good will to your complaint above, I put it in.  Now you're complaining - do you think I'm making this stuff up about Vitiligo?  Look, if you don't like it, take it out - I don't care, nor do I have the time, or inclination to sit on Wikipedia all day debating arcane inanities.  Terry Foote (talk) 17:21, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry for the misunderstanding we have here. I never said I care if Vitiligo is in the article. Like I said before, please look at the first diff I gave . It does not mention Vitiligo.  All I put in was about Sosa talking about the skin cream, and I was confused why that was removed "per talk page". --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 17:25, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks.  My apologies to you as well.  I didn't remove the content to begin with, nor did I make the edit about remove as per talk page.  However, if this issue is going to be in the article, then we should expound upon it and give the reader some context.  As it stands right now it just sounds like "and oh by the way, Sosa's skin is lighter."  The web is rife with sources discussing Vitligo - I'm just particularly adept at the wiki mark-up having to do with sourcing material.  If you feel so inclined, here's a good article aabout it from Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/07/sammy-sosas-skin-photos-p_n_349602.html All best, Terry Foote (talk) 18:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vitiligo? 

message: The article stated that Sosa was the first to have consecutive 60 home run seasons ('98-'99, 66 and 63), but the article indicates McGwire did this in the same seasons (70 and 65), so Sosa was the co-first.MayerG (talk) 03:40, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoever posted that must have forgotten about McGwire somehow. Sosa is the only one with THREE 60-homer seasons, though the third one was not consecutive. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 
carrots→ 03:53, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Back to back 60+ homer seasons 

message: Removed 'sosa was not african american' from article, as his ethnicity is noted at the top of the page. Also no mention of him being African-American appears to be made in the article at all. AJuice42 (talk) 18:44, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed redundant information 

message: As the article reads now, he's been married since 1993, and got married in 2005. Are there 2 marriages? Could someone clear that up please?Lafong (talk) 22:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  When Married? 

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message: When did Sammy sosa die? 99.90.55.130 (talk) 23:17, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He hasn't.  Jip Orlando (talk) 23:25, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sammy sosa