While the country awaits Sammy Sosa’s 500th home run, a fellow Dominican baseball player has broken a record of his own. At 27 years and 249 days of age, Alex Rodriguez is the youngest player to reach a total of 300 home runs, following yesterday?s game in which his team the Texas Rangers lost to Anaheim 11 to 5. The previous record-holder was Jimmie Fox, who hit his 300th home run at the age of 27 years and 348 days. Meanwhile, Sammy Sosa told reporters that he is ?not desperate? to reach home run number 500.