When did Sammy Sosa test positive for performance enhancing drugs?”
Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball’s season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug during 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of drug-testing results from that year. The disclosure makes Sosa the latest baseball star of the past two decades to be linked to performance-enhancers, a group including McGwire, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmiero. Sosa, sixth on baseball’s career home run list and who last played in 2007, had long been suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs but had never been publicly linked to a positive test. During a recent interview with ESPN Deportes, Sosa, 40, said he would “calmly wait” for his induction into baseball’s Hall of Fame, for which he will become eligible in 2013. But his 2003 positive test, when he played for the Chicago Cubs, might seriously damage his chances, a fate encountered by McGwire, who has attracted rela
Report: Sosa Among the Players to Test Positive in ’03 By Dave Sheinin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Scrutiny over the same batch of supposedly anonymous 2003 urine samples that led to February’s damaging steroids disclosures about Alex Rodriguez shifted yesterday toward another prodigious slugger, when a published report named Sammy Sosa as one of the players who tested positive that season for performance-enhancing drugs. According to a report on the Web site of the New York Times, Sosa, now 40, tested positive for an undisclosed substance while with the Chicago Cubs. The report cited unnamed lawyers familiar with the results. Sosa, who hasn’t played in the major leagues since 2007, has long been suspected as a steroids user, and he was among the players summoned before the House Government Reform Committee for an infamous 2005 hearing that still stands as one of the enduring images of the so-called Steroids Era. The latest disclosure will cast further doubt o
