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MESA, Ariz. -- Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood thinks Sammy Sosa should be in the Hall of Fame and the Cubs should consider retiring his number. "I don't see how you can't consider it," Wood said about retiring No. 21. "No matter what we t...

MESA, Ariz. -- New Chicago Cubs right fielder Scott Hairston is happy to wear the same number as another former right fielder. "I'll take it," Hairston said of his wearing No. 21, the same number worn by Sammy Sosa. "Who wouldn't want it?" Hair...

Retired Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas says he feels even better about his career after watching steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens fail to gain entry to the Hall of Fame.

Former slugger Sammy Sosa used a live webcast Wednesday to indicate he is open to reconnecting with the Chicago Cubs, and said the team should have retired his jersey number "a long time ago." Read the entire story....

Former slugger Sammy Sosa used a live webcast Wednesday to indicate he is open to reconnecting with the Chicago Cubs, and said the team should have retired his jersey number "a long time ago."

CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts indicated Saturday that he may be open to reaching out to Sammy Sosa and repairing the relationship with the former star. Ricketts was asked during the Cubs Convention if he would reach out to Sosa. Re...

Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts indicated Saturday that he may be open to reaching out to Sammy Sosa this year and repairing the relationship with the former star.

Earlier Wednesday, we posted a blank cartoon, and readers offered their captions. Our favorite was by commenter Mike_Williams7. Check your ESPN.com profile message center for an email. Thanks for participating. Check back Friday for another cartoo...

We got The Great Hall of Fame Shutout of 2013, a no-vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America that ensured induction weekend will be free of living beings for the first time in 50-plus years. Players accused (Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa) or k...

Take a shot at writing a cartoon caption. Playbook cartoonist Kurt Snibbe will offer up a blank cartoon each weekday morning, and he will fill in the blank with our favorite reader submission at the end of the business day. So please, by all means...

The Hall of Fame voters have spoken, and former Chicago Cubs great Sammy Sosa isn't getting in -- at least not this year. When the Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday there would be no inductees for the first time since 1996 it said as much about...

For the first time since 1996, no players were elected to the Hall of Fame by baseball writers.

The announcement of the 2013 Hall of Fame voting results is around the corner, and there's sure to be plenty of teeth gnashing involved once they come out on January 9. We might be treated to the spectacle of purportedly clean players like Craig Bigg...

Think Congress is too polarized to accomplish anything meaningful these days? It's got nothin' on the writers organization trying to decide who to put in baseball's Hall of Fame.

Absent, shall we say, a complicating factor, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa would be ultra-mortal locks. Based on the numbers, there wouldn't be the slightest hesitation in checking the box next to their names. That quote comes from long...

The Hall of Fame puts a positive spin on all its candidates for induction. But here's the real skinny on the newcomers to the ballot.