Sammy Sosa arrived to Tokyo Wednesday, 4 November for a series of exhibition games against the Tokyo Giants and Japanese all-stars. Dominican Chicago Cubs’ player is taking advantage of his presence in Asia to encourage the Japanese to make donations for Dominican victims of Hurricane George which left hundreds of victims in his own hometown, San Pedro de Macorís. "Everything the people of Japan can do for me and my people, we’d appreciate it,” he said. Sosa is receiving most of the attention of the touring Major League players as he is preceded by the fame of ending the year with 66 home runs, five more than Roger Maris’s 30 year old record, and only four short of Mark McGwire’s new record. While this is a friendship series, the Major League players are out to do their best against the best of Japanese baseball players. "We’re not scared," Sosa said. "That could be my mother up there and I’d still play my best."
