Obviously there's a lot of controversy over Sammy Sosa's career, as he is one of the prime suspects of steroid use. Personally, I have no idea whether he used steroids, and I'd say that even if he did, he's still shown a lot of talent on the baseball field. (Incidentally, the same goes for Barry Bonds, but maybe not for Mark McGwire, who didn't have much going for him beyond home runs.)

Anyway, let's leave the steroid debate for other forums. Here, noting Sosa's 600th career HR, are some tidbits about his career using the B-R PI:

For 60-HR seasons, here are all the players with at least 1 stolen base:

 Cnt Player             **SB** HR Year Age Tm  Lg  G   PA  AB  R   H  2B 3B RBI  BB IBB  SO HBP  SH  SF GDP CS   BA   OBP   SLG   OPS  Positions
+----+-----------------+-------+--+----+---+---+--+---+---+---+---+---+--+--+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+-----+-----+-----+-----+---------+
    1 Sammy Sosa           18   66 1998  29 CHC NL 159 722 643 134 198 20  0 158  73  14 171   1   0   5  20  9  .308  .377  .647 1.024 *9/8      
    2 Barry Bonds          13   73 2001  36 SFG NL 153 664 476 129 156 32  2 137 177  35  93   9   0   2   5  3  .328  .515  .863 1.378 *7/D      
    3 Sammy Sosa            7   63 1999  30 CHC NL 162 712 625 114 180 24  2 141  78   8 171   3   0   6  17  8  .288  .367  .635 1.002 *98       
    4 Babe Ruth             7   60 1927  32 NYY AL 151 691 540 158 192 29  8 164 137   0  89   0  14   0   0  6  .356  .486  .772 1.258 *97       
    5 Mark McGwire          1   70 1998  34 STL NL 155 681 509 130 152 21  0 147 162  28 155   6   0   4   8  0  .299  .470  .752 1.222 *3   

Sosa had one other 60-HR season(maybe two more if he keeps up his 2007 pace), but had no stolen bases that year.

And how about number of seasons with at least 50 HR, 100 RBI, and 100 runs scored?

 Sammy Sosa        1998 2001 29-32       4 Ind. Seasons                   
 Babe Ruth         1920 1928 25-33       4 Ind. Seasons                   
 Mark McGwire      1996 1999 32-35       3 Ind. Seasons                   
 Alex Rodriguez    2001 2002 25-26       2 Ind. Seasons                   
 Ken Griffey       1997 1998 27-28       2 Ind. Seasons                   
 Mickey Mantle     1956 1961 24-29       2 Ind. Seasons                   
 Willie Mays       1955 1965 24-34       2 Ind. Seasons                   
 Ralph Kiner       1947 1949 24-26       2 Ind. Seasons                   
 Jimmie Foxx       1932 1938 24-30       2 Ind. Seasons  

To be tied with Babe Ruth for just about anything is pretty amazing.

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