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2009-06-24 / Sports

Sandberg: Keep Sosa from Hall of Fame

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former Chicago Cubs star Ryne Sandberg says Sammy Sosa doesn't belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

"I don't think so," Sandberg told ESPN Radio 1000 in Chicago on Tuesday. "Part of being in the Hall of Fame, they use the word integrity in describing a Hall of Famer, in the logo of the Hall of Fame, and I think there are going to be quite a few players that are not going to get in."

The New York Times last week reported that Sosa was one of 104 players who tested positive for a performanceenhancing drug in an anonymous 2003 survey, while with the Cubs.

A congressional committee is looking into the allegations.Sosa and Mark McGwire captivated the nation with their 1998 battle to break Roger Maris' season record of 61 homers.

McGwire set the mark while Sosa finished with 66. He followed up by hitting 63, 50, 64, and 49 homers in his next four years, and hit 40 more in 2003, a season in which he was caught using a corked bat in front of his home crowd at Wrigley.

During a 2005 hearing before Congress, Sosa sat alongside Rafael Palmeiro, Jose Canseco and McGwire.

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