Bernie Lincicome

They say she ran down a jackrabbit when she was 5, but no one ever explained what a jackrabbit was doing in Watts. I remember doing a story on triple...

Baseball still got it badly wrong, never mind Bud Selig, in semi-pressed suit, presenting to Sammy Sosa something called the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award without indicating just which bit of...

To take Sammy Sosa at his word, that he is just a human being, is to deny the happy madness of recent days. The world would have to take back...

Ah, the ecumenism of it all. Quite an international feel-good thing are these home run escapades of everybody's favorite Dominican. Sort of baseball without borders. Here in the lower left-hand...

Oh, Sammy, you sweet Sammy. Take another bow. Tip that cap again. Blow your kisses to mama, blow your kisses to the world. And don't be giving this bat to...

When anyone could be the National League's Most Valuable Player, anyone was. Just last year a semi-substantial outfielder from Colorado won the award. And if you can think of his...

He has become just "Sammy," like Reggie was Reggie and Babe was Babe, that kind of Sammy. Like Cher is Cher and Madonna is . . . well, surnames are...

It was just as well that the journey to confirm home run No. 62 was made alone by Sammy Sosa, for there is no lonelier moment in sports than standing...

Sixty home runs will always be the sound barrier for baseball, no matter how many times it is reached, how often it is passed. As the difference between subsonic and...

The notion that Mark McGwire has saved baseball is as welcome as it is untrue. Any lie wrapped in so much joy is worth indulging, like non-fat hot fudge. We...