Three legendary American 🇺🇸 and Dominican 🇩🇴 baseball sluggers: Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas, Sammy “Slammin’ Sammy” Sosa and Mark “Big Mac” McGwire

Frank Thomas – 🇺🇸

Credit: clare and ben

• Full name — Frank Edward Thomas Jr.  
• Nickname – “The Big Hurt”
• Nationality – American 🇺🇸
• Career accomplishments –

• 5× All-Star (1993–1997)
• 2× AL MVP (1993, 1994)
• 4× Silver Slugger Award (1991, 1993, 1994, 2000)
• AL batting champion (1997)
• Chicago White Sox No. 35 retired
• National Baseball Hall of Fame member (2014)
• Five-time All-Star (1993–1997)
• Four-time Silver Slugger Award winner (1991, 1993–1994, 2000)
• On June 28, 2007, Thomas became the 21st player in major league history to hit at least 500 home runs, after he hit a first-inning home run at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
• Thomas is on a short list of players who have hit 500 home runs while maintaining a career .300 batting average (joining Hall-of-Famers: Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Mel Ott, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and later joined by Manny Ramírez and Albert Pujols).
• Thomas is also on a short list of players to hit 500 career home runs and accrue at least 1,600 walks. The others are: Babe Ruth, Mel Ott, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Barry Bonds.
• Thomas was the first player in major league history to win two Silver Slugger Awards each at two different positions (1993–94 at first base; 1991 & 2000 as designated hitter).
• He was only the 11th player in history to win consecutive Most Valuable Player Awards, and the first American League player to do so since Roger Maris in 1960 and 1961.
• He was the third player (Eddie Murray and Hank Aaron) to collect 500 career home runs and 120 career sacrifice flies.
• His 138 walks in the 1991 season was not only the most accrued in a season by any American League player in the 1990s, it was the most for a season by any AL player since 1969 when Harmon Killebrew walked 145 times.
• Thomas’ .729 slugging average for the shortened 1994 season was the highest season mark for an AL player since Ted Williams’ 0.731 slugging average in 1957. Only Mark McGwire’s 0.730 in 1996 has been higher since then.
• In the shortened 1994 season, Thomas achieved an on-base percentage of .494, which was also the highest season mark for an AL player since Ted Williams’ .528 on-base percentage in 1957. No AL player has topped this since.
• Retired as the all-time leader in home runs by a designated hitter (269); David Ortiz later broke his record.
• He is the only player in major league history to hit over 100 sacrifice flies and not collect a single sacrifice bunt, as well as the only player with over 10,000 plate appearances and no sacrifice bunts.
• The White Sox retired his uniform No. 35 during an on-field ceremony on “Frank Thomas Day”, August 29, 2010.

Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas M.L.B. Career Highlights – 🇺🇸

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A Look At Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas’ First And Last M.L.B. Career Home Runs – 🇺🇸

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Chicago White Sox Frank “Big Hurt” Thomas Hits His 300th M.L.B. Career Home Run: Chicago White Sox vs. Oakland Athletics – August 7, 1999 – At Candlestick Park – San Francisco, California – 🇺🇸

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Sammy Sosa – 🇩🇴 🇺🇸

Credit: Googie man

• Full name — Samuel Peralta Sosa  
• Nickname – “Slammin’ Sammy”
• Nationality – Dominican-American 🇩🇴 🇺🇸
• Career accomplishments –

• 7x All-Star (1995, 1998–2002, 2004)
• NL MVP (1998)
• 6× Silver Slugger Award (1995, 1998–2002)
• NL Hank Aaron Award (1999)
• Roberto Clemente Award (1998)
• 2× NL home run leader (2000, 2002)

M.L.B. statistics
Batting average	.301
Hits	2,468
Home runs	521
Runs batted in	1,704

MLB statistics
Batting average	.273
Hits	2,408
Home runs	609
Runs batted in	1,667

Chicago Cubs Sammy “Slammin’ Sammy” Sosa Belts His 64th and 65th Homers Of The 1998 M.L.B. Regular Season – At Wrigley Field – Chicago, Illinois – 🇩🇴 🇺🇸

Chicago Cubs Sammy “Slammin’ Sammy” Sosa Highlights – All 66 Home Runs Of The 1998 M.L.B. Regular Season – 🇩🇴 🇺🇸

A Look At Sammy “Slammin’ Sammy” Sosa’s First And Last M.L.B. Career Home Runs – 🇩🇴 🇺🇸

Mark McGwire – 🇺🇸

Credit: Silent Sensei from Santa Cruz, USA

• Full name — Mark David McGwire  
• Nickname – “Big Mac”
• Nationality – American 🇺🇸
• Career accomplishments –

• 12× All-Star (1987–1992, 1995–2000)
• 2× World Series champion (1989, 2011)
• AL Rookie of the Year (1987)
• Gold Glove Award (1990)
• 3× Silver Slugger Award (1992, 1996, 1998)
• 5× MLB home run leader (1987, 1996–1999)
• NL RBI leader (1999)
• Athletics Hall of Fame
• St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame
• Major League Baseball All-Century Team

Accomplishment	Record	Date(s)	Refs
Major League Baseball records
Fewest at-bats to 500 career home runs	5,487	1999
Fewest career at bats per home run	10.6
Home runs in a four-season period	245	1996–1999
Consecutive 50-HR seasons	4
50-HR seasons	4
Consecutive 60-HR seasons	2	1998–1999
Home runs in a two-season period	135
Single-season highest RBI/H ratio	1.014	1999
Oakland Athletics records
Lowest career AB/HR ratio	12.1
Career HR	363
Lowest single-season AB/HR ratio	8.1	1995, 1996
St. Louis Cardinals records
Lowest career AB/HR ratio	7.9
Highest career OPS	1.222
Highest career OPS+	180
Highest career SLG	.683
Lowest single-season AB/HR ratio	7.3	1998
Most HR in a season	70
Most times on base in a season	320
Most bases on balls in a season	162

Summer Olympics
	1984 Los Angeles	Team
Pan American Games
	1983 Caracas	Team
Intercontinental Cup
	1983 Brussels	Team

St. Louis Cardinals Mark “Big Mac” McGwire Highlights – All 70 Home Runs Of The 1998 M.L.B. Regular Season – 🇺🇸

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1998 M.L.B. Regular Season – Race For The All-Time M.L.B. Single Season Home Run Record – Mark “Big Mac” McGwire & Sammy “Slammin’ Sammy” Sosa – 🇩🇴 🇺🇸

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1986-1992 Oakland Athletics Bash Brothers Highlights – Mark “Big Mac” McGwire and Jose “The Chemist” Canseco Home Runs Compilation – 🇺🇸

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