Sammy Sosa Clearing the Vines

Champaign, IL, U.S.A.: Sports Publishing, 1998. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sammy Sosa: Clearing the Vines is a biography on one of baseball's most popular and prolific home run hitters. Sammy Sosa: Clearing the Vines cover Sosa's career from his childhood in the Dominican Republic through the record-setting 1998 season. Sosa helped put the spotlight back on major league baseball in the summer of `98. His record setting season made him a media magnet and his charm has made him a celebrity. Clearing the Vines is a paperback biography that takes sports fans from the Dominican streets where Sosa grew up, to his days in Wrigley Field where he has developed into a national hero. Sammy Sosa: Clearing the Vines is authored by Chicago Cubs beat writer George Castle. Castle, who lives five miles northwest of Wrigley Field in Chicago and hung out in the right field, bleachers, is the host of the nationally syndicated baseball radio show "Diamond Gems." Also an award winning sportswriter, he covers the Chicago Cubs and major league baseball for The Times, a daily newspaper based in northwest Indiana. Castle also is a spores columnist for Chicago's Lerner Newspapers chain. He is a regular contributor to Chicago-based Sports Profiles magazines and team publications put out by the Cubs, Chicago Bulls, Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees. Nationally, Castle and Baseball Digest. 8 pages of photos. 223 pages..