{"id":241091,"date":"2025-09-08T07:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=241091"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T12:30:08","slug":"sammy-sosa-inducted-to-chicago-cubs-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/08\/sammy-sosa-inducted-to-chicago-cubs-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Sosa inducted to Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sammy-Sosa-Diario-Libre-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241103\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sammy-Sosa-Diario-Libre-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sammy-Sosa-Diario-Libre-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sammy-Sosa-Diario-Libre-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sammy-Sosa-Diario-Libre-1536x859.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sammy-Sosa-Diario-Libre.png 1782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa was inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame on 7 September 2025. The 2025 Cubs Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago Cubs Executive Chairman Tom Ricketts has described Sosa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sammy Sosa was not only one of the greatest home run hitters of all time, but he was a favorite of right field bleacher fans by showing, sprinting out to right field to start each game. His defensive play was All-Star caliber in addition to his impressive all-time slugging stats.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/press-release\/press-release-cubs-announce-derrek-lee-and-sammy-sosa-to-join-cubs-hall-of-fame-in-2025\">MLB <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cp7Jn36GSDo\">Sammy Sosa statements <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/2025\/09\/07\/sammy-sosa-entra-al-salon-de-la-fama-de-los-cachorros-de-chicago\/3236924\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 September 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa was inducted into the Cubs Hall of Fame on 7 September 2025. The 2025 Cubs Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place at Wrigley Field. Chicago Cubs Executive Chairman Tom Ricketts has described Sosa: &#8220;Sammy Sosa was not only one of the greatest home run hitters of all time, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/08\/sammy-sosa-inducted-to-chicago-cubs-hall-of-fame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241132,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241091\/revisions\/241132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}