They were asked torespond in the context of their most important product orproduct line, and the most recently ended planning period(see Table 1 for a brief description). Forty tape-recordedinterviews lasting between 60 and 90 minutes yieldedmore than 1,200 pages of transcripts.
Tim Kurkjian: Yes. Sammy Sosa is a Hall of Famer. There is no definitive proof about his alleged steroid involvement, so in the absence of hard evidence, his numbers are what we go by, and they are of Cooperstown quality. He has the fifth-most home runs in baseball history.
Sosa remained a strong hitter for the next six seasons with the Cubs, but he started to encounter some problems in 2003. He was suspended for several games for using a corked bat in a game that year. His name also came up in an investigation about steroid use, an allegation he has adamantly denied.