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Sosa, enjoying a career year of his own, is hitting .311 with 58 home runs and 140 RBI, numbers which make him the frontrunner in the N.L. MVP balloting. To the informed fan, he is 1998's true home run champ...
...taught at Chapel Hill, was what won close games, and what he always hungered for was championships, not individual honors. Early on in his professional career, he mentioned casually to reporters that he hoped one day to be named defensive player of the year as well as MVP. A young writer named Jan Hubbard, then with the Dallas Morning News, wrote at the time that it could not be done, that it took too much additional energy to be that kind of defensive star and that no one would have enough energy to do both. But then...
Schafer, who made a team-high seven starts as a freshman, joined Wells (3-0) in crippling a Northeastern offense powered by senior designated hitter Tim Daley, who batted .372 in 1997, and junior first baseman Carlos Pena, MVP of the prestigious Cape Cod summer league...
...resume is studded with lacrosse honors. As a defenseman at Johns Hopkins he was a member of a championship team, was a First Team All-American three times and won Player of the Year in 1989 and was voted World Championships MVP...
McGwire, who hit 58 last year, begins his first full season with St. Louis when the Cardinals open at Busch Stadium against the Rupert Murdoch-owned Los Angeles Dodgers. Griffey, the AL MVP, and the Seattle Mariners entertain AL champion Cleveland at the Kingdome...